Paudge Connolly (Cavan-Monaghan, Independent)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 31 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the chronic shortage of neurologists to serve the approximately 500,000 persons with disabling neurological conditions; Ireland's total of 16 neurologists, or one per 250,000 people, the lowest in Europe, in contrast to the European norm of one per 40,000; the necessity to increase the number of neurologists to 90 over the next ten years; the average two-year delay in seeing a neurologist for diagnosis and commencement of treatment; and call on the Government to provide a neurologist for every 100,000 persons, as an interim step towards attaining the European norm in ten years' time.

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