Ms Angela O'Neill:

The Senator asked specifically about the section 38 and 39 organisations, as opposed to services delivered by the HSE. She will know that historically, services were delivered on an ad hocbasis. Section 38 and 39 organisations were developed for specific diagnoses, age groups, geographical areas and so on. With the PDS and the CDNTs, each team will be managed by a lead agency. Those lead agencies are the partners that have been working with us historically. I refer to section 38 organisations such as the Brothers of Charity and the Central Remedial Clinic and to section 39 partners such as Enable Ireland or Ability West. We have already agreed a process whereby those organisations will take a lead responsibility for managing the CDNT in an area. The HSE will be the lead agency for 41 networks, section 38 organisations will lead for 25 networks and section 39 organisations will lead for another 25 networks. There is granular detail within that about how many networks the Brothers of Charity and Enable Ireland, for example, will lead on but that is broadly where we are.