Ms Magdalen Rogers:

It is an issue for clarification as to where responsibility for it lives. Our understanding is that it comes under the women's health initiative. A strategy document was published on it recently by the Department of Health. What we need is clarity. Epilepsy Ireland as a member of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland has requested there be clarity on why only two of the six recommended valproate nurses have been appointed. The epilepsy association has requested clarity on who is directly responsible in the HSE and what is the latest update on it.