asked the Minister for Health the number of physically disabled persons in residential care.

A survey has shown that there are 802 physically disabled people in residential care.

Are all of those 802 patients in specialised residential care homes or are some in hospitals as such?

For the most part in special residential care but, as the Deputy knows quite well, a number are in psychiatric hospitals, for example, a particular matter which should be a source of shame to everybody.

When the Minister talks of residential care does he include in that the Cheshire Homes?

Yes, as far as I am aware.

Has the Minister figures for the number of patients in Cheshire Homes?

I do not have that information before me but I can send it to the Deputy.

Why is it, in the present day and age, that we still must have people who are physcially disabled in psychiatric hospitals?

I suppose the short answer to that is they do not have the same political influence as the Deputy and I have.

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