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

Those who will be charged with developing the codes of practice will be the multidisciplinary working team, which the Minister has to establish as soon as the Bill is enacted, to assist in the development and preparation of the codes of practice with the director of the decision support service. The Minister will ultimately be responsible, which is the triple-lock in terms of democracy and how we operate here. We therefore have a fairly robust system in place. It will be a multidisciplinary group which will not only look at people in terms of mental health, disabilities, acquired brain injury or any such issues, but will also ensure that organisations dealing with people who have a difficulty with capacity are well trained and understand the difficulties that people at the counter or sitting at a desk may have.

I assume that all relevant groups will be represented on the multidisciplinary group when it is established. I believe that it will produce a code of practice and standards on which we can rely.