Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 6 December 2022
Joint Committee On Health
People Detained in Secure Forensic Mental Health Facilities: Discussion
Ms Molly Joyce:
I am talking about prisons specifically and about knowing, for example, how many people have an intellectual disability or are suffering from mental illness within prisons. It is very hard for us to know accurately. We know it is a big issue because we get a lot of communications about it and because it keeps being identified as an issue by all of the various monitoring bodies but access to clear figures and actual research is very limited. I am sure my colleagues can talk about the specific issues in the CMH.
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