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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