A service that is particularly valuable in a psychiatric hospital is the alcoholism unit. The alcoholism unit in Ballinasloe is the only one in the health board region with residential facilities. That is very important where people need to be taken out of the environment in which they live. Not all issues can be dealt with in a day care centre or an out-patient centre; therefore we must have residential services. There have been many threats that the residential unit in Ballinasloe will be closed but it should be retained.