James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons detained here under the Mental Health Act 2001 in each of the years 2015, 2016 and 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23166/18]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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The Annual Report of the Mental Health Commission includes figures for the number of admission orders issued each year.  It should be noted that the figures published by the Commission relate to the number of admission orders issued rather than the number of people admitted on an involuntary basis.

The number of such orders issued in 2015 was 2,363 while the figure for 2016 was 2,414.  The Commission’s 2017 Annual Report has not yet been published, but I understand from the Commission that the relevant figure for 2017 is 2,337.