Ms Audry Deane:

We are critically aware of the vulnerable group of people who experience involuntary detention on mental health grounds. We have not had a mental health tribunal with just one person involved. It just has not happened. We know this on the basis of this morning's information from the Mental Health Commission. If we think about what is happening on the ground, some of these measures have never had to be used at all.

Our view is that if we do not need them, we do not need them. In particular, we at least need a review of what the experience for this particularly vulnerable group has been. Our feedback from members has been that, at times, people who are before a the mental health tribunal do not feel that they are being heard. They also have difficulties coping with the technology. It is quite a singularly dissonant experience to hold hearings by videophone and in camera. They do not feel supported and these are people with particular needs. If we say "stick to the knitting" and ask whether we need these measures, in our case we would say that many of them are not needed.