Eric J. Byrne
Ceist:279 Mr. Byrne asked the Minister for Health (1) the total expenditure on psychiatric services, broken down by health boards, in the years (a) 1980 (b) 1985 (c) 1990 and (d) 1991, (2) the total expenditure on psychiatric services, by health boards in these same years as a percentage of that health board's total expenditure, (3) the number of psychiatric nurses employed in these same years broken down by health board and (4) if, in the case of services previously delivered through the psychiatric programme which have now been transferred to other headings, the level of expenditure on those services has been maintained through transfer of resources to new programmes.