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 for it. I stress to the committee that we are in limbo. People with neurodisabilities in Ireland are in limbo at the moment because of the lack of progress on implementing the neurorehabilitation strategy. Unless that is active and up and running, we do not have a space to which to bring the outcomes of that mapping in order to identify the gaps. I again stress that for people with neurodisabilities in Ireland, the implementation and progress on the neurorehabilitation strategy is key, as a pathway to identifying needs in so many different areas. Employment, education and housing will all stem from implementation of the neurorehabilitation strategy and that process being up and running.