Ms Anne O'Connor:

There are a couple of initiatives that we started last year relating to nursing. The mental health division now funds undergraduate and postgraduate nurse training. We have had significant difficulties in nursing particularly in the east coast where we have nurses who train and work in Dublin for a couple of years and then go home, wherever home is. We have been very challenged on the east coast. We have been funding a postgraduate nursing course in UCD. The first year of that is now complete. We have also completed the first year of an additional undergraduate programme, which is an extra 70 places. We are into the second year of that and we will have another intake. The mental health division has invested significantly in nurse education, which is uncommon. We are also working very closely with the College of Psychiatrists, looking at how we can improve training. We have invested more in psychology training too.