The Minister for Mental Health says there will be more investment in local mental Health Services.
Helen McEntee was in Kilkenny for the launch of the Memory Matter report surveying the care of 68 dementia patients and their families in the Carlow and Kilkenny area.
Minister McEntee is admitting that more needs to be done in the area.
But she says she wants mental health services for people in Carlow and Kilkenny to be as good as anywhere else in the country.