Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Multi-annual budgets are required for key areas such as neurology services to ensure the plan that has been drafted can also be implemented with sustained funding to allow the service to catch up with demand. Government, Parliament and citizens must debate the issue of demographics which will clearly present serious challenges in many areas, including dementia and other neurological diseases and conditions in the years ahead. We will not have the capacity or ability to address these challenges unless we commit ourselves to funding the necessary services. This will require the provision of additional resources from tax revenues. We must have this conversation because people will otherwise get lost in the system and we will have delayed diagnoses and poor outcomes and treatments.

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