Róisín Shortall (Dublin North West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our guests. I thank them for their presentation and all the work they are doing. I want to go back to the neuro-rehabilitation strategy. Most groups that appear before the committee call for a strategy. In this case, the strategy dates from 2019. For one reason or another, it has not been implemented. I ask our guests to expand on that. Ms Rogers stated that there was to be a community neuro-rehabilitation team in each of the nine CHOs but the majority of the CHOs do not yet have such a team. Two of them were funded in 2019 but the staff were never recruited. Why is that the case? What happened to the funding that was provided in 2019? Why is this really important area getting so little attention in the context of decisions that are being taken in respect of funding and recruitment and so on?