Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Adjournment Matters. - Mental Health Services.
The situation is bound to get worse because the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform has said he will abolish padded cells for psychiatric patients in the prison service. Where does he propose to send these people? If I were in a padded cell in Mountjoy, Wheatfield or Clover Hill I would ask to stay there rather than be moved to a cell in the Central Mental Hospital. A person would have a better chance of being in a therapeutic regimen in the prison service because the staff in the hospital are fighting an impossible situation.
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