Epilepsy deserves higher priority

Well done and many thanks to Catherine Shanahan for continuing to follow Grainne O’Connor’s story (Irish Examiner, Feb 25) so highlighting the injustice being done to her.

The shortcomings in the TAS posed a life-threatening risk.

Over the course of Ms Shanahan’s excellent coverage of Grainne O’Connor’s case she has been able to display the inadequate nature of services available to such people with epilepsy.

These are of paramount importance, and delays like we have just witnessed could so easily have ended tragically.

To think now that a government department such as the HSE and assistant national director Pat O’Dowd set out to invite plaudits, but still to dictate and say this and no further, shouldn’t be let pass by.

Epilepsy doesn’t receive the priority order it most certainly deserves.

Leeson Egan

Dublin 7