Brendan Griffin (Kerry, Fine Gael)
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1462. To ask the Minister for Health his views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13595/23]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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The Health Service Executive is leading on the implementation framework in respect of the recommendations of the National Policy and Strategy for the provision of Neuro-Rehabilitation Services in Ireland 2011-2015.

The Neuro-Rehabilitation Strategy Implementation Framework (IF) was launched in February 2019. 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 (MCRNs).

The aim is the development of these networks around the country.

In order to test the feasibility of this new MCRN model in the Irish context, a decision was made by the Neuro-Rehab Steering Group to run two demonstrator projects within CHO6 and CHO7 to assess the feasibility of the model to inform national roll-out.

The two-community neuro-rehab teams within CHO6 and CHO7 are in the recruitment phase and the plan moving forward is to roll out these services on a national basis.

To that end, Budget 2023 provided funding for two additional teams, to be rolled out in CHO 2 and CHO 4 respectively.