341 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of older psychiatric patients of St. Ita’s Psychiatric Hospital, Portrane, County Dublin, who have been moved from that institution to private nursing homes in the past year; if his attention has been drawn to an increased mortality rate among such patients; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that a similar policy of moving elderly long stay patients from public psychiatric hospitals to private institutions in Britain was criticised in a television programme (details supplied) in 2003; and his views on this programme and any other similar reports or studies on the effects of such a distressful event in psychiatric patients’ lives as uprooting them from an institution in which some of them have lived for more than 50 years. [7940/04]

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341 Aengus Ó Snodaigh asked the Minister for Health and Children the number of older psychiatric patients of St. Ita’s Psychiatric Hospital, Portrane, County Dublin, who have been moved from that institution to private nursing homes in the past year; if his attention has been drawn to an increased mortality rate among such patients; if his attention has further been drawn to the fact that a similar policy of moving elderly long stay patients from public psychiatric hospitals to private institutions in Britain was criticised in a television programme (details supplied) in 2003; and his views on this programme and any other similar reports or studies on the effects of such a distressful event in psychiatric patients’ lives as uprooting them from an institution in which some of them have lived for more than 50 years. [7940/04]

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