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:
I can speak to that. The section Deputy Ward is looking for in the heads is section 13B. That might provide a bit of clarity on our position on that. What that section tries to do is say is that if someone is in the process of being involuntarily detained, for example, being transferred to an approved centre, and during the course of that transfer the doctor becomes aware that the person might need medical attention for a physical issue, that person would be transferred to an accident and emergency department to receive physical treatment for the ailment. Then, after the patient recovers sufficiently to be transferred to the approved centre, he or she would be transferred to the approved centre. It provides that the person's physical health will be looked after in the accident and emergency department and his or her mental health treatment will be looked after in the approved centre, and if he or she needs mental health treatment-----
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