Priority is being given to the development of mental health services for the psychiatry of later life and the child and adolescent psychiatric services. Additional resources have been made available by my Department to enable on-going developments in these services. The increase in the number of people living to advanced old age requires the development of specialist mental health services to meet their specific needs. Later life psychiatry services have been expanded in recent years and € l.831 million is being provided in 2002 towards the provision of additional consultants in later life psychiatry.