Dr. Susan Finnerty:

I have looked into the rehabilitation services nationwide and what the Deputy says is accurate. Unfortunately, poor services are not isolated to that area. Donegal, for example, has no rehabilitation service at all. However, the population of more than 600,000 has only two rehabilitation teams and many people are in some type of institutional care, whether hospital or community residences, from which they cannot move on. As we said earlier, access to services is a postcode lottery.