Ms Richelle Flanagan:

I have experience in this regard with the Parkinson's disease nurses. There has been some difficulty recruiting because it is a specialist area but there is now a masters course for nurses in one of the colleges, which is good news. I cannot remember if the course is in Trinity College Dublin or UCC. That will definitely help in terms of upskilling nurses to be able to take on these posts. The timeline would be between six and nine months, from my experience of the Parkinson's Association of Ireland trying to get a Parkinson's disease nurse.