The superior of the order must have been desperate to have made the position public. Other hospitals have similar difficulties but they have not publicised them. Therefore, I commend those in St. Mary's for making their problems known. There is no inspectorate for the approximate 200 facilities which cater for those who are intellectually and-or physically impaired. During the years these institutions have been declassified because it has been agreed by the inspector for mental hospitals that the people concerned are not mentally ill, although, regrettably, in time some of them become mentally ill. The inspector supervises and inspects only those institutions which house the mentally ill. The occasional institution comes under the remit of the inspector, for example, St. Joseph's, Portrane.