Mr. John Farrelly:

I will give the Deputy another angle on it. There could be unintended outcomes from that. If we step back and look, for example, at our general hospitals, there are large numbers of children in our general hospitals who need to be admitted to mental health facilities. I would also worry that young adults, those aged between 15 and 17, would suffer by not having any facility at all. I would rather see people treated in some facility than receiving no treatment at all. The bottom line is that we do not have the facilities to treat them so by enshrining that in the legislation, we could have unintended outcomes. The children who need care will end up in general hospitals, potentially, and I would worry about that. The counter argument, of course, is that if we enshrine it that will force the State to put the facilities in place. That is the balance that we have to think about.