Ms Magdalen Rogers:

I will ask Professor Pender to answer because he is uniquely placed to speak about CHO 9. One of my comments would be the specialist neurology services are based in the larger urban centres, so patients would have an expectation that they would have a better service or certainly a better resourced service, including in their communities in these areas. However, in CHO 9 we see patients coming to us from that area saying they would be better off if they lived in Limerick or Donegal, and you never hear that. Regarding community neurorehabilitation teams, even though these people are accessing really good specialist services in the acute neuroscience centres within the Dublin area, it does not mean they have the community services available in other parts of the country. I will hand over to Professor Pender.