Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Mental Health Services in Prisons and Detention Centres: Discussion

1:40 pm

Professor Harry Kennedy:

There are approximately four young people in Oberstown today who are on anti-psychotic medication. We are diverting perhaps one per month to inpatient services in the HSE, and we are having some success in doing that. It would be better if we had the secure forensic beds open and they will be open in two years.