Seanad debates
Thursday, 7 November 2002
Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements.
I gave a stark warning then which has come to be realised: no one is excluded from mental illness. Everyone should realise that and accept that the modernisation of treatment brings challenges to everyone, especially in institutions where there was major resistance from the psychiatric services, the psychiatric nurses' association and unions because it affected a way of life. The institutions were horrible and were the next thing to prisons. I bid farewell to them. I compliment successive Ministers on having the courage to bring forward major change and I know the Minister of State will see that this continues.
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