Contestation of the common foreign and security policy in European Parliament. The case EU actions Afghanistan 2005‑2013
 Foreign policy, including has traditionally been considered a domain public where lower standards parliamentary democratic control scrutiny can be employed. There is belief among policy‑makers, that order to act effectively this field, they should not limited by legisla...

May 14th: Mr. Tom Driberg asked ttle Minister of Health if, in view of the social and economic disabilities suffered by the children of those who have been Certified insane, he will take steps to Provide for the formal annulment of ?Uch certification when found to have een based on an erroneous diagnosis. The Minister refused, but following a !^PPlementary question from Mr. uriberg said that if...

21th April. The Minister of Health, replying to a question from Lord Balniel, stated that the total non-domestic staff for local authority mental health hostels had trebled in the last two years and that most staff, when appointed, had already had some relevant training or experience. He said further that one special training course had been held by the N.A.M.H., and that he understood others t...

House of Commons Debates Prisons: During an Adjournment Debate on February 6th, 1963, Mr. Leo Abse stated that "in 1961, on more than 100 occasions men and women in our prisons and borstals were placed in straitjackets. More than half of the women suffering this treatment were young women inside our borstals." He also stated that strait-jackets, the use of which had in effect been abandoned by ...

description by "an eminent psychiatrist" of his patients and working methods. The articles were written by Douglas Keay, a journalist. 8th September. The main article in The Sunday Times?"Mending Broken Minds" by Dr. Alfred Byrne-?was devoted to a survey of provisions for the rehabilitation of mental patients after discharge from hospital. Letters from Mary Adams and J. Mallory Wober of the N.A...

December 1964 2nd. Replying to a question from Miss Joan Quennell, the Secretary of State for the Department of Education and Science, Mr. Michael Stewart, said that there were 17 special schools for maladjusted children and 9 independent schools wholly or mainly for maladjusted children and 9 independent schools wholly or mainly for maladjusted children; 580 extra places in special schools, in...

16th July: Adjournment Debate on the Probation service?pay and conditions. 23rd July: Mr. Van Straubenzee asked the Minister of Health how many young Persons aged 14, 15, 16 and 17 respectively, are at present detained in Broadmoor: whether his regulations prescribe any minimum age for such detention: and what special arrangements are made f?r the accommodation and treatment ?f such young perso...

. e Marquess of Lothian, Baroness Swanjj?r?ugh, Lord Strabolgi, Lord Wellsestell, and Lord Taylor, who summed the debate. Baroness Elliot referred q? the N.A.M.H., saying that it was "an r?anisation which, I think, has done ?re from day to day, and with ordinary e?Ple, to care for the mentally sick than y other organisation which I know." (toUSE OF COMMONS une 1965 to'8th. Mr. Kenneth Robinson,...

We present a database of parliamentary debates that contains the complete record of parliamentary speeches from Dáil Éireann, the lower house and principal chamber of the Irish parliament, from 1919 to 2013. In addition, the database contains background information on all TDs (Teachta Dála, members of parliament), such as their party affiliations, constituencies and office positions. The curren...