Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

As we speak, a man called John Scannell is being buried in Cork. This matter relates to legislation. The man spent a year in a coma after being pulled out of a river. Due to severe brain damage, he never regained consciousness. He threw himself into the river because he had been discharged from a psychiatric unit despite the fact that he told those running the unit he was suicidal. Whenever I asked the Minister for Health and Children about the issue, she told me that she would revert to the HSE. As the Ceann Comhairle and I know, John is not the only such person.

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