Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

The Minister of State announced again that €15 million has been made available for the development of psychiatric services. Bearing in mind that this serious issue will affect one in five people at some stage of their lives and that the development of psychiatric services has been neglected for decades, that €15 million, which is less than the cost of the Punchestown project and only 25% of that of electronic voting, is absolutely unacceptable. It is an absolute disgrace to announce that for the development of psychiatric services when they need a multiple of that sum each year to bring them into line with the standards of the 21st century.

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