Ivor Callely
Ceist:573 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Health and Children the reason the Central Mental Hospital, Dundrum, Dublin 14, is closing down its outpatient rehabilitation programme for sex offenders; his views on the recent report of a medical journal that agencies are less willing to see programmes as offering a solution and are looking to punishment rather than treatment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1647/99]