Mr. Bernard Gloster:

I am not familiar with what it is like today but I did manage the service there for a year with the Mental Health Commission when the mental health service was at its greatest crisis. In fact, I brought in external investigators from Northern Ireland because of very serious issues there. Some of the units the Deputy referred to were not in themselves equally good places of care. I need to be very clear about that. That said, that should not be an excuse for the absence of an appropriate level of service for people with mental health issues. People, particularly those with enduring mental illness, can be accommodated through various housing bodies and local authority schemes, but they can and should be supported to their level of dependency. However, we still have a level of need for some inpatient supports, or high-support units or houses.