Dr. Colin Doherty:

There are now nine epilepsy nurse specialists working in the Dublin region delivering care. We have two maternity hospitals with an outreach programme providing an epilepsy service and one more must come online in Dublin. We have four intellectual disability centres where a nurse visits people who are intellectually disabled. That means they do not have to be put in taxis, transferred to and made sit in the unfamiliar environment of waiting rooms in adult hospitals. We are making progress and it is all about a process or structure that we have put around the service. The national clinical programmes - and I only represent one aspect of them - is the way forward. However, it is the way in which one implements the process.