Dr. Roy Browne:

I will start by addressing that question. I cannot tell the Chairman what the psychiatrists are looking for, but I can tell her the reason we cannot get back most of those who we are trying to recruit. They are people we trained who left to work in America, Australia and New Zealand, the major territories that are taking our graduates. The National Health Service is not attracting as many of our graduates because it suffers many of the difficulties from which we suffer in the Irish health service. There is an enormous preponderance of managing performance in terms of vetting etc. These are very self-driven people, as are the nurses - to whom the Deputy referred - the psychologists and the social workers. These are people who are very much driven to look after their patients but find at times they are unable to have the necessary resources, for example, a room in which to see their patients or a secretary to type up reports. They type up the reports themselves and that is fine but it probably would have been more helpful if they had seen other patients and had been able to dictate those reports.