Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 November 2021
Joint Committee On Health
General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Department of Health
Mr. James Kelly:
Yes. We have included additional safeguards so that the registered proprietor or the person in charge of a centre could be liable to be guilty of a crime and be liable to a custodial sentence or a fine if found to be guilty. Those have already existed in relation to seclusion and restraint but we are expanding it so that a person running an approved centre and it is not registered with the Mental Health Commission that person will be guilty of a crime for that reason. We have included some additional safeguards to protect against fraudulent-----
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