Seanad debates
Thursday, 8 April 2004
Criminal Law (Insanity) Bill 2002: Committee Stage (Resumed).
2:00 am
Mary Henry (Independent)
I move amendment No. 104:
In page 14, subsection (1), lines 29 to 34, to delete paragraph (b).
This might indicate I am trying to get jobs for my friends. It is not suitable to have the governor of a prison acting as a consultant psychiatrist, which the clinical director would be. This section only encourages the use of prisons as places of detention for mentally ill people, which we all agree is not a good idea. Such people should be in a hospital environment, which would be more therapeutic than being in a prison regime.
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