Maire Devine (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I second Senator Craughwell's amendment to the Order of Business calling on the Minister for Defence to come to the House.

The headline we have been subjected to, yesterday in particular, is that Irish children are being exported to psychiatric institutions, mainly in the United Kingdom. There were six in the last two years that we know of, three of whom have ended up in St. Andrew's in Northampton, England, for treatment. We need to be very mindful of this. There are two issues.