Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

As Deputy Adams is aware, with the number of retirements from the psychiatric nursing service, a different kind of worker, carer and professional is needed now. Not all of those will be replaced but under the allocation for mental health, which is ring-fenced, those 414 whole-time equivalents will be recruited, although many of them not in the traditional sense of the psychiatric nurse as the Deputy and I would have known them over the years.

When the Deputy spoke about the austerity programme, he did not mention, for instance, the 700 jobs announced last week by the Minister for Education and Skills in IT conversion at no cost to people, nor did he mention any of the announcements made by investors here which are creating-----

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