Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This goes beyond neurorehabilitation services and applies to most models of care. I deal a fair bit with mental health issues. The first thing the model of care for child and adolescent mental health services refers to is the uniformity of care across all CHO areas. I do not understand why it should be different for neurorehabilitation services. I hope to be able to attend next week's meeting of this committee and raise that directly with the representatives of the HSE. These are probably questions that should be for the HSE, but I will ask the witnesses present and their responses might inform me when I ask the questions again next week.

I refer to the delays in CHO 6 and CHO 7. I know recruitment has been mentioned but what can be done to avoid these delays? The witnesses provided a map outlining the coverage of rehabilitation teams. The red marks indicate where there are no teams. What can we do to avoid to delays? What can we learn from the delays in CHO 6 and CHO 7? What can we do for the other CHO areas that are identified as red on this map?