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Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I look forward to hearing how helpful I have been. I appreciate how important it was to include these explanations.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 10: In page 4, line 27, after "may" to insert ", on the advice of the Inspector of Mental Health Services". It is suggested that the Mental Health Commission should be consulted. I tabled this amendment because the Minister for Health and Children has a great deal to do and far more than she expected. It would be extraordinarily difficult to be in position to identify a...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 18: In page 5, line 5, after "if" to insert "having obtained the opinions of two approved medical officers, one of whom is the clinical director of a designated centre, the court finds that". The reason I tabled this amendment is that a judge in a court who has no experience of psychiatric matters is being asked to make a decision as to whether a person is mentally ill.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I had the impression on Committee Stage that the Minister did not believe it necessary for the psychiatric profession to give an opinion in many areas.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: If it is possible for me to second the amendment, I would like to do so.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 21: In page 5, line 29, to delete "or" and substitute "and".

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: This is a very important issue to me. I pointed out during the debate on Committee State that in half the Bill, the description was "care or treatment" while in the other half it was "care and treatment". The terms appear to be randomly dispersed. However, to my horror, where I suggested we should have "care and treatment", the Minister has changed it to "care or treatment". I looked up the...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: The basis regarding treatment appears to change daily. The Minister of State gave Alzheimer's disease as an example. Nowadays, most people would think that far more should be done for people with Alzheimer's disease than just keeping them warm and feeding them. It was not a very good example. It could be a cost-saving effort not to treat people. I would not like to see that situation arise,...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 22: In page 5, line 30, to delete "commit him or her to a specified designated centre" and substitute "commit him or her to the designated centre subject to the agreement of the clinical director of the specified designated centre". I have tabled this amendment concerning the requirement for the agreement of the clinical director of the specified designated centre due to...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I see the difficulties presented by the Minister of State but there is a problem in that we are failing to establish proper psychiatric centres of use to such people. This might give some impetus to the issue.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 30: In page 6, line 34, after "court" to insert "only with the agreement of the relevant consultant psychiatrist from the relevant designated centre or the Central Mental Hospital". This amendment deals with the same issue as discussed in other amendments.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I am sure I will make as little progress with it. The significant shortage of proper places for people who may need to be detained is causing a terrible problem. I thought it wise to speak with someone in the designated centre or in the Central Mental Hospital before transferring a person in a taxi with a prison officer.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: Naturally, I will have some crib about this provision which astonishes me. The Minister of State is attached to the Departments of Health and Children and Justice, Equality and Law Reform. I keep trying to point out that the same psychiatrists will have to try to make both Bills workable. Section 18 of the Mental Health Act deals with a review by a tribunal of admission and renewal orders. I...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I know the people who must try to work these Acts.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: My amendment No. 36 is being discussed with this amendment and what the Minister has proposed goes a long way towards addressing it. I would have liked him to have gone further because it is hard enough for people who are not fit to plead to have their entire psychiatric history in the public press when perhaps they are at a stage of treatment when they know what is going on. It is also hard...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. My amendment No. 36 is straight from my favourite piece of light reading, the Henchy report.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 38: In page 7, to delete line 26. This is the one place where my light reading and I fall apart. "Irresistible impulse" is a concept not known in psychiatry. Of course, one will be able to find a couple of people to come forward in the courts and there may be terrible trouble in various court cases because of this concept on which the Minister is very keen. I have been...

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I just have to tell my psychiatric friends to remember the good fees they will get going down to the law courts to argue on this issue. That, I hope, will cheer them up.

Seanad: Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Report and Final Stages. (19 Apr 2005)

Mary Henry: I move amendment No. 41: In page 7, line 43, after "may" to insert "subject to the agreement of the relevant consultant psychiatrist of the relevant designated centre or, in the case of the Central Mental Hospital, the advice of a consultant psychiatrist from that hospital". The purpose of this amendment is to try to get advice on where the courts were sending a prisoner who would become a...