Mental Deficiency Bill

39.

Captain O'NEILL
asked whether the right hon. Gentleman will during this Session introduce a Mental Deficiency Bill applicable to Ireland, in view of the fact that a separate Bill has been promised for Scotland?

Mr. RUSSELL
I am not in a position to give any undertaking on the subject.

Captain O'NEILL
How can the right hon. Gentleman justify that course in the case of a part of the United Kingdom which most needs a Bill to deal with the mentally deficient when England and Scotland are going to be dealt with?