David Cullinane (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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I welcome the witnesses. I thank them for their advocacy and thank all of the constituent organisations that make up the alliance for the work they do.

I might start with the issue of specialist nurses because I want to first establish the facts in regard to some of the issues we are discussing. Obviously, I welcome the additional funding for the specialist nurses that was made available last year, and I know quite a lot of advocacy was done by the alliance, which I would argue made a difference. How many nurses were sought and how many were then funded? What is the deficit from the perspective of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland? What is the current shortfall and what more needs to be done?