Ms Magdalen Rogers:

That 300 is the recommended number and we have just one third of that. That figure is pretty much static since the framework was published in 2019. That is one area of the neurorehabilitation strategy where we have not really seen progress. We have the National Rehabilitation Hospital and some beds in Peamount Healthcare and in the Royal Hospital in Donnybrook but all in the east of the country and many less than we need. We have a one third shortfall in those post-acute rehabilitation beds. We had the insight earlier in this meeting as to what that means, which is that people in that vital window of rehabilitation are deteriorating unnecessarily because they cannot get that specialist inpatient rehabilitation. We are asking the committee to specifically ask the HSE for an action plan on inpatient neurorehabilitation because we have seen a delay in implementing that part of the strategy.