3350. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1228 of 10 February 2026 and 1111 of 24 February 2026, the reason the Mental Health Commission does not publish information on the duration of mechanical restraint for enduring risk of harm, notwithstanding that approved centres submit information to the Mental Health Commission from which the duration of each use can be established; whether she accepts that reporting only the number of residents or uses does not provide an adequate measure of the extent or severity of restraint; and if she will request that future national restrictive-practices reports publish, by year and approved centre, the total cumulative duration, median duration, longest duration and duration bands for mechanical restraint, with proportionate anonymisation or suppression where genuinely necessary to protect individual residents. [55890/26]

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3350. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1228 of 10 February 2026 and 1111 of 24 February 2026, the reason the Mental Health Commission does not publish information on the duration of mechanical restraint for enduring risk of harm, notwithstanding that approved centres submit information to the Mental Health Commission from which the duration of each use can be established; whether she accepts that reporting only the number of residents or uses does not provide an adequate measure of the extent or severity of restraint; and if she will request that future national restrictive-practices reports publish, by year and approved centre, the total cumulative duration, median duration, longest duration and duration bands for mechanical restraint, with proportionate anonymisation or suppression where genuinely necessary to protect individual residents. [55890/26]

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