Mr. Bernard Gloster:

-----and it is the right thing to do. That is good. A planning application has been submitted for it and I have certainly made it clear that, regardless of national capital plans, I will not be found wanting in coming up with the wherewithal to provide it.

The team at St Stephen's described to me the service there as having two sides. One is dementia specific, which is necessary. I have seen some of the designs we are now using throughout the country for dementia and community nursing units, such as in Tuam in County Galway. They are very good. The concern about the impact of an institutional site can be well mitigated there. I absolutely believe this, both aesthetically and architecturally. The other side of the service there is for people with enduring mental illness challenges but with a much more appropriate model of care and social care. This is still being pursued and it is not as close to final decision, final design or final implementation as of yet.