Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

That is very interesting because often we are seeing a long lead-in time just to get the staff ready but Dr. Coote is saying there are a pool of people rearing to go and would like to be staff. It seems incredible to me that someone could live in Beaumont or Marino and his or her first point of care or acute setting is there and then he or she has nothing.

Professor Pender said people are hidden and talked about GPs referring people. Will he elaborate on that? I presume there is reticence from his team to release people to nowhere and with no supports. Does the lack of neurorehabilitation teams in the community now put a direct stress on the acute services in terms of staff time and administration? Will Professor Pender comment on that?