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Written Answers — Water and Sewerage Schemes: Water and Sewerage Schemes (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: Question 1411: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Heritage and Local Government when a sewerage scheme will be upgraded in Glin, County Limerick. [25703/05]

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to deal with this matter. I am pleased the Minister of State at the Department of Health and Children, Deputy Tim O'Malley, is also in attendance. My contribution will be somewhat low-key because of the sensitivity around this issue. I am extremely concerned about the placing of a psychiatric hospital beside a prison. Such an approach may be beneficial from the point...

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: I am aware much discussion took place on this issue between the Departments of Health and Children and Justice, Equality and Law Reform. The former was initially dissatisfied with the proposal. Obviously, the senior Minister's view prevailed and a lot of concern exists within the psychiatric service——

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Minister's answer ——

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Minister's answer to everything is that if it was not done within any two years in the past 20, he should not be held accountable. That is what he is saying.

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Government now has the money and the opportunity. A lot of concern exists with regard to the stigmatising of mental health. One of the reasons that mental health is not prioritised is because it is not a political issue. People do not raise the issue because of the stigma that surrounds mental health. Regardless of whether it is called a campus, by putting a mental hospital beside a...

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Irish Penal Reform Trust informs us that up to 40% of prisoners suffer from psychiatric conditions. Professor Anthony Clare made strong comments on this issue but due to time constraints I will not quote him.

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: 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...

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Minister mentioned padded cells. He organised a committee to investigate that issue but did not include a psychiatrist or psychologist on it.

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Minister admitted that 78% of those put in padded cells are there for their own safety because they are suicidal. However, he did not even consider that a psychiatrist would have an opinion in dealing with this issue.

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: I do not accept that.

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: The Minister knows best in everything, does he not?

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: Maybe the Minister would consider the idea of special psychiatric courts for people with mental illnesses. Many prisoners are imprisoned for petty crimes. Alternatives to prison might involve a detailed psychiatric programme to address their psychiatric problems. We have examined this service in other countries. It would be a means of getting at the problem prior to imprisoning those people....

Prison Building Programme: Motion. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: I ask the Minister to re-examine the proposal to put a psychiatric hospital beside a prison.

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 31. (28 Sep 2005)

Dan Neville: I propose the adjournment of Dáil Éireann under Standing Order 31 to discuss the following matter of urgent importance, namely, the need to provide school transport for first year students to Pallaskenry post-primary centre from Limerick city.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (1 Jul 2005)

Dan Neville: I thought that might be the Minister of State's answer.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (1 Jul 2005)

Dan Neville: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the Bill. We were surprised to see this Bill before us because we had a long and comprehensive debate on the 2004 Act, especially on Committee Stage. One would have expected this issue to arise in the course of that debate. This shows that even when legislation is well debated issues can subsequently arise, which leads to concern about what can occur when...

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (1 Jul 2005)

Dan Neville: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle did not say that to other Deputies.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (1 Jul 2005)

Dan Neville: That is fair enough. I will speak to the Bill.

Civil Registration (Amendment) Bill 2005 [Seanad]: Second Stage. (1 Jul 2005)

Dan Neville: The Leas-Cheann Comhairle has cut me off again. I can recall at least half a dozen occasions since Christmas on which such an input was made by the Chair. In fairness to the Leas-Cheann Comhairle, it was usually not by him but by the Ceann Comhairle. If I am not allowed develop discussion on the area to which I referred——