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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Michael Moynihan: ...Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, the future systems and innovation of service provision. On behalf of the committee, I wish to extend a warm welcome to Ms Magdalen Rogers, executive director of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland; Dr. Niall Pender, principal clinical neuropsychologist and head of psychology at the neuroscience centre in Beaumont...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I wish the Chair, committee members, and fellow presenters a good morning. On behalf of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland, I thank the members of the committee for the opportunity to appear in front of it today. Our umbrella organisation represents more than 30 not-for-profit organisations providing specialists supports to people with neurological conditions and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I thank Deputy Tully for her question. I will answer first on the existing number of beds. It is difficult to get a handle on the number of existing beds, to be honest, because the steering group on the implementation of the strategy has met so infrequently in terms of mapping what is in place. There are 120 beds in the National Rehabilitation Hospital. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I thank Deputy Canney for attending the launch of our Patients Deserve Better campaign on Tuesday. We are highlighting the shortage of neurology nurses. Sometimes there is confusion about what is neurology and what is neurorehabilitation. They are two sides of the same coin in that there is a lack of services at all stages of the continuum, as Dr. Pender said. We find...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: I will let Dr. Pender reply to Deputy Cairns's question on the impact because that is something he sees every day. On the point about the vocational and educational supports for neurodisability, I want to stress that the neurorehabilitation strategy is not just about beds or medical teams. It is about the full range and gamut of supports that people living with a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Aligning Disability Services with the UNCRPD and Considering Future Innovation and Service Provision: Discussion ^ (2 Dec 2021)

Ms Magdalen Rogers: To come back to Senator Higgins's point about the gaps in community services, and where they exist, we in Neurological Alliance of Ireland, along with the Disability Federation of Ireland, are embarking on a project in 2022 to map where community neurorehabilitation services exist and where they do not. While that is an important piece of work, there has to be a context...