asked the Minister for Justice (a) the number of defendants in murder cases who have successfully pleaded an insanity defence since 1921; (b) the number of defendants who have been held unfit to plead in criminal cases over the same period; and (c) the number detained in psychiatric institutions by sex, age, marital status, length of stay and diagnosis.
Written Answers. - Defendant Statistics.
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Mr. Brennan
Limerick East): The information is not available in the Department and to assemble it — by examination of records going back over 60 years — would require the expenditure of a disproportionate amount of staff time.