Mick Wallace (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I accept putting patients in acute mental health beds is not ideal or seen as best practice. When A Vision for Change, a good document, was published in 2006, it looked away from locking up people behind walls and drugging them to their eyeballs. The plan, however, was that the acute bed units would not be done away with until there was enough support and facilities in the community to replace them. This has not really happened and A Vision for Change has remained just that, a vision.

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