Seanad debates
Thursday, 8 April 2004
Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
1:00 am
Mary Henry (Independent)
I move amendment No. 21:
In page 5, subsection (3)(b) line 29, to delete "or" and substitute "and".
I explained earlier the reason I believe it is important to use the term "care and treatment" rather than "care or treatment". The custodial element of care is being preserved and separated from treatment but as I pointed out to the Minister when I discussed it earlier, treatment does not mean one necessarily has a cure. The medical and nursing professions would be in a terrible state if we had to say that every treatment would cure a person.
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