Dr. Colm Henry:

As I said earlier, we are hoping to fully resource four teams this year and, of the remaining five, two are partly in place. During the Estimates process, we will make a submission to secure the manpower, consultant resources and allied healthcare profession resources to fully staff those teams. To go back to the Deputy's earlier point, which is important, we find, if one looks at neurorehabilitation, which is under-resourced here and internationally, that when one starts to put services in place, it starts to drive demand. The services do not just address the most severe end but other cases come to light that would benefit from those teams. There is a phenomenon in healthcare that when there is underprovision, particularly in therapy, demand will be driven up once resources are put in place because people who would otherwise have availed of a service which did not exist will now expect to get the same level of service. I expect to see this being a moving target in the coming years which would see demand go up.