It is worrying that Ireland appears to have the highest incidence in Europe of mentally ill people in prisons. About 160 of the 11,500 admissions to prison last year were of people described as mentally ill. Efforts were made to transfer these people to the Central Mental Hospital but there was frequently no room. The 1999 report from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the IQ levels of those in our prisons showed that some 28% had an IQ level of 70 or below. There is an odd situation in our prisons and, while I realise this is not the Minister of State's area, there is a dreadful gap between the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Department of Health and Children about what is happening to the mentally ill and the intellectually disabled in prisons. The Minister of State should liaise with his colleague on that.