Seanad debates

Wednesday, 16 April 2003

Central Mental Hospital: Motion.

 

The Government's heart is in the right place, going by what the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform, Deputy McDowell, has said. The Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002, which will be coming to this House shortly, will set up a mental health review board which will monitor those people detained by virtue of the "not guilty by reason of insanity" clause or the "unfit to be tried" provision. They will monitor them every six months and will then decide what is to be done with them, if they are to be released or sent to court. If the board decides that the people concerned need ongoing care and treatment as in-patients, where are we to put them? We will not have Shanganagh Prison, which is for juveniles. Are we to put them back into the Central Mental Hospital in Dundrum?

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