Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will move on to neurological rehabilitation services and ask the same question relating to the challenges that have occurred previously. There are many challenges. We all know about them. There are patients who have challenges themselves, and they know they have. There are patients who need attention and cannot get attention. There are people who need to go on addiction programmes and they do not get the attention they need. The problem emerging now is that some patients are in desperation. They do not see a way out. In some cases it leads to psychotic and other correlated issues. There is an urgent need for a really serious look at that situation, with a view to bringing services within the reach of those vulnerable people.