Ms Mary Walshe:

I wish to clarify a point on the numbers. I acknowledge there is a discrepancy between the figure of 1,232 and the figure in A Vision for Change, which relates to the community mental health teams in the community. We need to give the committee a breakdown of the staffing in the approved centres, because that is where the significant discrepancy arises. It looks like we have all these staff and people may ask where the rest of them are. Significant numbers are in residential centres. For example, I have four approved centres, including the Ashlin Centre in Beaumont Hospital. There are acute beds in St. Vincent's Hospital, Fairview, the Mater Misericordiae University Hospital and Connolly Hospital. There are child and adolescent mental health service beds in St. Joseph's unit in St. Vincent's Hospital. The discrepancy relates to the numbers in the community teams. One figure for numbers of staff relates to our approved centres and those in psychiatry of old age.