Seán Crowe (Dublin South West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I thank Ms Rogers very much. We all know as politicians that we tend to meet more of those people for whom the services are delivering but in our ordinary life we tend to hear more from people where the services do not exist or are not being delivered for them. The point was made about the huge cohort of people who have a neurological condition. In another couple of years, we will be talking about a million people who will have it. That is a huge proportion of our society. We have a plan in place. It is probably outdated at this stage but regardless of bringing politics into it, we clearly have a system that is not working and is not delivering for all those people who are our constituents but also our neighbours or people we know. The important thing is that we try to come up with strategies that will work for those people. It is something we will return to as a committee. I will certainly raise it at the next committee meeting and we will try to get a date to bring in the relevant people. We will try to follow up on the action plan the witnesses are looking for for people. We have had other organisations in before the committee. We had representatives from Vision Ireland in a number of weeks ago and people from the deaf community in the weeks before that and they were saying there was no plan in place. Here we have a plan but it is not being acted on and not being resourced. Again, we need to ask why. If resources were allocated for the member organisations for those individuals who have a neurological condition and they were not followed through, this raises questions about what happened there. I will leave it at that.

I thank our guests and the 30-plus organisations they represent for all the work they carry out, day in and day out, on behalf of the members of those organisations and the general public. We will return to this issue in the near future. The committee has heard some important information and a lot of questions have been asked. We will return to the issue.