Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)

I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to raise a matter of national importance, namely, the proposed closure of three psychiatric hospitals - St. Ita's, St. Brendan's and St. Senan's - next February; the need to develop multidisciplinary-based psychiatric services in the community, as recommended as early as 1984; and the risk to patients in these hospitals, and to potential patients, who will not now have access to efficient, proper and community-based services.

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