The incidence of suicide in prisons is worrying. Improvements are being made with the establishment of better psychiatric services in prisons but it is regrettable that people with a serious psychiatric illness are still in prison rather than in a psychiatric hospital. I compliment the Minister of State on fulfilling his promise to visit the Central Mental Hospital to see the appalling conditions in that institution. It is quite incredible that the Minister of State, Deputy O'Malley and the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Martin, were the first Ministers to make such a visit. I have visited the institution from time to time over the past 20 years and it is not something one wants to do too often. One realises that the conditions are not changing and that it is not a place to visit for recreation. I imagine the Minister of State must have found it appalling to see the conditions in which prisoners were held, including sleeping on concrete bunks, having to slop out and so on. This situation simply must be addressed. It is quite wrong that anybody deprived of his or her liberty should be kept in such appalling conditions.