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:

That will probably come down to the implementation of the updated Act. The expert group recommended that a post-enactment pre-commencement implementation group be set up among the commission, HSE and Department to work out the kinks with regard to what the proprietors need to transition to this new way of working and treating people. This will be an opportunity to foster good practice, share it among different types of facilities and have that education piece. It is probably not for the proposed Bill to be prescriptive on that. It can come afterwards and it can be baked it into the education and training on what the updated Act means for proprietors, healthcare professionals and patients.

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