Seanad debates
Thursday, 7 November 2002
Report of the Inspector of Mental Hospitals, 2001: Statements.
Unless there is a seamless structure of communication and feedback between the institutional care and those who look after the homeless, there will be a situation where literally people who are nominally under community psychiatric care will be walking the streets, because the place they live in requires them to leave during the day. It is not the fault of the people providing the service such as the Simon Community. The service does not have either the physical or staff resources to keep people during the day. To talk about care in the community for people like that is a contradiction.
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