Professor Eilion?ir Flynn:

I reiterate all of the areas that Ms Joyce has identified for further research. They are very important and we would definitely support all of that and - I may sound like a broken record - especially the research around the lived experience of people within the Central Mental Hospital, or those who have spent time there. That would be very valuable. In the short timeframe of this research we were not able to include them in the research. It would certainly be challenging to access that population, but that research is really needed to understand the full spectrum of the experiences. We are gathering this from outside stakeholders from stakeholders who work within the setting. This is not the same as the issues that are a identified from people who are living in the setting, which may be very different from what we have identified through this research so far. That is certainly an area to look at. The people who have experienced the system are best placed to really come up with the solutions that would avoid others having to go through what they have gone through. We really need to put that front and centre of further research into this area. It is a voice and perspective that has been missing so far.