Seanad debates
Wednesday, 28 May 2003
Adjournment Matters. - Mental Health Services.
The Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill, in which it is suggested that those who have committed crimes who are psychiatrically ill will not be sent to prison but sent to a psychiatric hospital, is also before the House. The hospital in question must be the Central Mental Hospital because there is no other forensic psychiatric facility in the country. The Inspector of Mental Hospitals has described the dreadful situation and one cannot but agree with everything he has said.
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