Mr. Jim Ryan:

If it is okay, I might add a couple of things. Regarding the disciplines that relate specifically to mental health, such as consultant psychiatrists, there has been a doubling in the numbers who have gone through HSE or higher specialist training through an investment we made with the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, which has been helpful. From a psychology point of view, where there is a gap across the country, we invest about €5 million a year in assistant psychologists, many of whom go on to do the clinical programme afterwards. We are growing our own. We are spending about €4 million a year on psychiatric nursing higher education in order to be able to extend and increase the number of undergraduate and postgraduate courses that are targeted at psychiatric nursing across the higher education sector. We clearly saw the need here. Around 250 were graduating and we would need more than that in order to meet the demand. One of our challenges is how many of those we retain when they qualify because between private facilities, travel and other opportunities we may not be getting the return we would have hoped for. In the areas in which we have specifics that we can advocate for with regard to mental health, or where there is a specific role, we have invested over the last number of years. We are very conscious of the need to grow the base. A lot of the new posts we have been putting in are at a senior level and normally around 80% of our promotional posts come from within our service.