Dr. Peter McKenna:

A question was asked earlier as to why perinatal mental health facilities were so rudimentary in this country. The answer is because we had the confluence of two specialties that were regarded as not worthwhile spending money on. One was maternity and the other was psychiatry. The maternity services have arrived at where they are because of resource issues. A very easy measure of this is the number of consultants. There are about 120 or so consultants in this country. By any international standards that is very low.