No such person

FURTHER to your article (August 27) on the recommendation of the Barr Tribunal on the need for mental health professionals at a siege, no such personnel exist in Ireland and no psychiatrist is trained for this type of special psychology.

Thus, general trained psychiatrists cannot be of any help if an “Abbeylara-type incident recurs’.

The mental health services are short staffed even for basic general psychiatric medical problems.

Dr M Bhamjee

Consultant Psychiatrist

Ennis

Co Clare