Joe O'Brien (Dublin Fingal, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Neuro-rehabilitation services play a critical role in supporting recovery and-or maximising the ability of those with neurological conditions, including those with acquired brain injury, and the Government remains committed to the continued implementation of the neuro-rehabilitation strategy.

The overarching aim of the strategy is the development of neuro-rehabilitation services to improve patient outcomes by providing safe high-quality person-centred neuro-rehabilitation at the lowest appropriate level of complexity. This must be integrated across the care pathway and provided as close to home as possible or in specialist centres, where necessary.

These services are to be configured into population-based managed clinical rehabilitation networks. The overarching aim is the development of population-based MCRNs around the country. In delivering on this commitment, additional funding has been provided in successive budgets to support the continued roll-out of the strategy.

The Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities would like to assure all that she is very aware that there remains much unmet need in this area and she is committed to building services and developing better and more accessible supports for people with neurological conditions.