Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Even though there is a connection between maternity and post-natal depression, we have to separate maternity services from mental health services. In the new mental health services in Galway, for instance, we will be putting in place facilities for women and their babies to be dealt with in the one unit. That is already happening in Cork with the new unit we are building there and it will have to happen elsewhere also.

As regards crisis management within acute units, we are dealing with vulnerable people. I am always surprised that people are surprised that we have episodes that need to managed more directly. We are dealing with very ill and vulnerable people. Those who work in the service and manage these situations every day know that it is not peculiar to Ballinasloe. This happens in every acute unit around the country. We must start recognising that people in the Galway-Roscommon area deserve the same excellent service that exists in other areas of the country.

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