Seanad debates
Wednesday, 19 February 2003
Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Second Stage.
We must be extremely careful because, in cases of murder, in particular, there are victims. I do not want to go into individual cases, but there was a spectacular case recently in which two people were murdered. The family of the victims felt extremely let down when someone who was pronounced insane made what seemed to people outside the system a miraculous recovery. It was almost as wonderful as the recovery from Alzheimer's disease of the one-time chief executive of Guinness in the United Kingdom. As far as I am aware, this is the only known case of someone being cured of Alzheimer's disease. I say this in defence of the medical profession, in spite of what I have just said. What else can I do but defend the medical profession? I am not in a position to do anything else.
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