Ms Magdalen Rogers:

As the Deputy will be aware, a long-standing recommendation of the Neurological Alliance is the provision of a specialist rehabilitation centre. Cork contains the second national neuroscience and neurosurgical centre. The national neurorehabilitation strategy makes a number of recommendations for the development of specialist neurorehabilitation facilities to bring Ireland up to the minimum standard for the number of specialist beds it should have. We recommend and endorse providing such a facility. The number of beds, their location and so on need to be decided operationally and in conjunction with the roll-out of the national trauma strategy.