Seanad debates

Wednesday, 19 February 2003

Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage.

 

Could the Bill not be used to do something about the mechanism for the transfer of patients from prisons, particularly to the Central Mental Hospital? I am delighted the Minister has said he wants to see people out of padded cells in prisons and into the Central Mental Hospital or other suitable psychiatric hospitals. We must do something to get psychiatric hospitals to take back non-violent individuals who come from their areas and are in the Central Mental Hospital. Many of them suffer from conditions such as burnt out schizophrenia and are not a danger to the population. Psychiatric hospitals will have to take responsibility for them.

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