Ms Colette Cahill:

Predominantly, I suppose we cover CHO 4, which is Cork and Kerry, but we have extended a little further afield to other counties within Munster. There are many different routes as to how people access our services, because of the range of services we offer, particularly our continent service. That has gotten a referral pathway where the hospitals, consultants and local health services refer into our continent service. People can self refer, but as we have grown over time and people have begun to know us, they certainly come more and other people like rehabilitation centres are referring to us to support the family because of the services we offer. We are not just a medical model. The range of services we have, because we are living and following the Aspen 2Gen model, really focus on the family, so quite often we have people who maybe have a child or older adult with a disability but we would support their family as opposed to just supporting that person. Many of our services are supporting the parents and siblings, and maybe supporting the carers in the community or the special needs assistants in the schools. This is all to support the family unit to make life that bit easier for them.