Maire Devine (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

How far can we push out the skill mix without losing quality and safety aspects in ensuring the risks are reduced?

I have many more questions, but I will just ask one more. The delegates are seeking to have an overall chief psychiatrist which is probably a good idea. I imagine Professor Kennedy could write the job description for the post. Recently, I dealt with a case in which an approved centre had refused to take an individual patient for reasons related to the safety of the rest of the patients in it. In the United Kingdom under legislation they must take such individuals. Do the delegates think we should take a similar route?

Last August I had research carried out into the matter of community treatment orders. Will the delegates say where they stand on the matter? I am not sure I see it as pluses and minuses, but we should consider implementation of something similar if it could save some families from being murdered, which happens rarely but not rarely enough.