Magdalene Rogers

But we have an outlier in the southeast of the country where there is no community neuro rehabilitation team.

So regional neurology services and community neuro rehabilitation services to provide that multidisciplinary care.

That's so essential.

A major new report reveals a deepening crisis for the 860,000 people in Ireland who are living with neurological conditions.

The report questions whether care has become a postcode lottery with some living in limbo.

Let's find out more now with Magdalene Rogers, who's Chief Executive of the Neurological Alliance of Ireland.

And Magdalene is here with me in the studio.

You're very welcome.

And I'm joined on the line by Brenda O'Connell, who was diagnosed with Parkinson's three years ago.

I think people who haven't been through something like this, through a diagnosis or an injury or something that leaves them in this category, would think that the minute something like this happens to you, that everything falls into place and that you're minded well.

Is that not the case?

So is this pre-diagnosis or after diagnosis?

What are we talking about here?

It's extraordinary.

24,000 people.

That's where we're into the postcode lottery to use that term.

It depends on where you live.

Your care is based on that essentially.

Let's bring Brenda in at this point.

Brenda O'Connell, who's on the line.