Seanad debates

Thursday, 8 April 2004

Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).

 

1:00 am

Mary Henry (Independent)

I move amendment No. 20:

In page 5, subsection (3)(b), line 25, to delete "approved medical officer" and substitute "clinical director of the specified designated centre".

In terms of the clinical director, any doctor will not do in this case. Whoever receives this person has to be in a position to say whether the institution is capable of taking him or her. The Minister will say they cannot have a veto over that but from a practical point of view I would have thought this would be useful.

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