Dan Neville (Limerick West, Fine Gael)
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Question 311: To ask the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform the procedures under section 12 of the Criminal Asylum (Ireland) Act 1945 to sentence prisoners to be removed to the Central Mental Hospital on foot of a ministerial warrant. [3113/05]

Michael McDowell (Dublin South East, Progressive Democrats)
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A sentenced prisoner certified to be insane by two doctors may, pursuant to section 12 of the Central Criminal Lunatic Asylum (Ireland) Act 1845, be removed, on foot of a ministerial order, to the Central Mental Hospital. The person may then be held there for treatment until two doctors certify that the person concerned is no longer insane whereupon that person, on foot of a further ministerial warrant, may be remitted to the prison he was originally transferred from or released in accordance with law.