Dr. Amir Niazi:

It is because of whatever was in the media. I will give an example. One of my colleagues was at a dinner in Australia and said she worked in Ireland. The first thing the other person said was that she was thinking of going to Ireland. My colleague said she should come and work with us. However, the other person mentioned she had looked at social media and wanted to know what was going on in Kerry. There was so much in the news about Kerry. People were reluctant to come from abroad and find out if there was a problem in that area.

We are progressing on that one, but what we are now doing, instead of leaving that post alone, is combining south and north Kerry into a hub to provide service from there. We are also making using of telepsychiatry so that children living in that area are not left without a service. Every effort is being made at the moment to provide a service, but at the same time we are trying to recruit a full-time permanent consultant in that post.