48 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the psychiatric committal system operated under the Mental Treatment Act, 1945, has collapsed and that the Garda Síochána is not prepared to co-operate in the transfer to hospital of patients in respect of whom papers have been signed ordering them to be detained under section 184 of the Act; and the steps, if any, he proposes taking to address this difficulty. [5786/99]

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48 Mr. Shatter asked the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the psychiatric committal system operated under the Mental Treatment Act, 1945, has collapsed and that the Garda Síochána is not prepared to co-operate in the transfer to hospital of patients in respect of whom papers have been signed ordering them to be detained under section 184 of the Act; and the steps, if any, he proposes taking to address this difficulty. [5786/99]

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