Professor Orla Hardiman:

It depends on the condition. Some of the work we have been doing within the clinical leads programme is to think about how we might integrate the delivery of services for people with neurological conditions along the lines of the Sláintecare aspirations. Of course, that is about providing care at the lowest level of complexity and closest to where the person lives to the greatest extent possible. That means providing a really good regional service for people with neurological disabilities. Unfortunately, there is significant geographic inequity in the delivery of care for people with neurological disability. That is very much the case in the north west and, to some extent, in the south east and Dublin. The regional inequity is significant and that has very much impacted the waiting lists for people with neurological disabilities.