I join colleagues in congratulating the Irish soccer team. As a keen sportsperson who has travelled worldwide to many matches, I support Senator Ray Butler's motion that calls on Aer Lingus and Ryanair to reconsider their prices because they discourage people from travelling to matches. It is a disgrace that people are being asked to pay upwards of €1,000 to fly to France for just one day.

This morning I attended a campaign launch organised by the Neurological Alliance of Ireland with my colleague, Senator Maura Hopkins. I support her call that the Minister for Health come here to address the issue. One thing I learned this morning at the event was that, by European standards, Ireland should have 270 inpatient beds. We have less than half that number in the whole country. Another stark fact that I learned was that there were no regional inpatient specialist rehabilitation centres in the entire country. There are only three community rehabilitation teams in the entire country, but European standards recommend that a country with a population of this size should have nine. We badly need these matters to be addressed.