Dr. Eamon Keenan:

Currently we provide treatment in three or four residential services based on treatment episodes. In other words, we get block funding each year into the HSE, which was increased again last year, to allow us to provide treatment episodes. Treatment episodes for an additional 475 people were provided in 2021. This is an area which needs ongoing and consistent funding. I am aware of the work that Ms Margaret Nash is doing in Bushypark. Obviously our residential services have been impacted by the public health restrictions in terms of the numbers of people who would be allowed into facilities. We also have to recognise that some of the facilities are old. They are not all new, purpose-built, swanky premises. They are old premises that have been adapted and any funding we can get to improve that is welcome. At the moment, we get funding for treatment episodes on an annual basis.