‘Inappropriate’ to put jail near hospital

A SUPPORT group for the mentally ill has said it would be entirely inappropriate to have a jail on the same campus or site as the Central Mental Hospital.

Caroline McGrath, deputy chief executive of Mental Health Ireland, said her organisation would oppose any plan to site a detention facility in the same space as a health facility.

Different needs, different support, different structures, Ms McGrath said in response to a controversial suggestion made by the junior health minister Tim O’Malley.