Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I move amendment No. 6:

In page 10, line 23, to delete “mental” and substitute “decision-making”.

The change to the definition of capacity is to remove the implication and the definition is a status-related definition, linked to a person's mental condition. The focus of the Bill is on decision-making capacity as reflected in the Title of the Bill. The definition, therefore, needs to enshrine the functional principle that the capacity to be assessed relates to decision-making rather than to the person's relevant mental condition more broadly.

Amendment agreed to.