Ms Magdalen Rogers:

It is a joint strategy of the HSE and the Department of Health. The ultimate responsibility needs to be for momentum to implement the strategy and call the meetings. There are all sorts of internal and systemic reasons, such as staffing changes, but they should not take away from the need or momentum to implement a three-year strategy. The Neurological Alliance of Ireland has stated over and over again that it is simply not good enough to use the excuse of staffing changes and changing senior clinical staff as a reason not to keep momentum.