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:

We are doing that. For example, there are two high support units, one in Cloverhill and one in Mountjoy. There are others developing in other places. We have taken that as far as we can. We have 323 on our caseload in the prisons, which is almost 10% of the prison population. Of that 323, however, 28 are too ill to be in prison and should be in the CNH. They are on the waiting list.