Camillus Glynn (Fianna Fail)

I strongly support Senator Corrigan and others who have rightly objected to the concept of people who have a psychiatric aspect to their illness being returned to psychiatric hospitals. Many good people in the psychiatric services give an enormous amount of their time and significant resources are put into preparing for return to the community people who had been institutionalised. It is hard to credit that anybody would put forward such a suggestion. This is not alone turning back the clock, it is going back to the ice age. This is a daft proposal and whoever conceived it does not deserve to be in the position he or she holds. This is one of the most negative proposals ever. It would turn the psychiatric services back to where they were in the 1940s or even earlier. It is a crazy suggestion. The Minister of State, Deputy Moloney, has done tremendous work since he took over responsibility for the psychiatric services. I hope that time can be found in the near future for him to come to the House to debate the matter. I know this crazy proposal is not of his making. Whoever made it does not deserve to be in the position he or she holds.