Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

A psychiatric facility should exist within prisons and a proper psychiatric service should be available to prisoners. Anybody with a serious psychiatric illness should be in hospital. If somebody breaks a leg, suffers pneumonia or has a heart attack, he or she is taken to hospital. However, somebody who contracts a serious psychiatric illness is dealt with inadequately in prison. The Minister must admit that fact.

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