Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 May 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
HSE National Service Plan 2023: Discussion
Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source
My final question is about the Neurological Alliance of Ireland. It was here last week and it was an interesting session. It said 800,000 people in the State would have a neurological condition, which is one seventh of the population. It is an enormous number of people. What was stark about the statement was that 85% of the neurological patients will not have access to a community neurorehabilitation team. That means a huge number of people just will not get the intervention at that time. How can the HSE address that? I know the witnesses' statements go some way to addressing some of this stuff, but many people are not getting the intervention that they should.
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