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Wed 12 Dec 2007Mental health failings
The Government cannot pretend it did not know that mental health services are inadequate or that the funding it promised two years ago under a special development programme was not delivered. Blaming the Health Service Executive for these failures is not an option.
The unpalatable truth is that under-funding and a lack of services may have contributed to the brutal murder of an innocent man in Dublin by an individual who had earlier sought psychiatric help.
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