Mr. Chris Macey:

It was the HSE's national stroke programme. No blame can be attached to the stroke programme as they do fine work. They are utterly under-resourced. There is a clinical lead who is only able to spend a portion of his time acting as the clinical lead because he still has to do his day job.

There is a project manager, although for much of the time over the last couple of years there has not been a project manager because people have moved on. That has been a huge problem.

The resources should have been given to enable that strategy, which could have been published within a few months. However, it was not published because it was not resourced by the HSE because it does not prioritise stroke in any meaningful way, as far as we can see.