Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief. As Mr. Ryan said, most of us involved in this have had personal experience. It is closer to our hearts and we get more embedded in it as the debate goes on. As we speak today, some people are not being given chances within the mental health system for their own decision-making capacity. Family members, who have their best interests in mind, want to look after them. I know we should not rush things, but surely we should take a parallel approach in getting the Bill through. It is great to see so much collaboration between services. It is about time. In other committees I have asked why all those involved cannot get into one room and agree one plan rather than be divided and have five individual plans. It is a common-sense approach. I have gone off the point. We are pushing mental health forward. Do the witnesses think there should be something running parallel with the Bill to try to start putting things in place so that when the Bill eventually crosses the end line, we will have appropriate buildings, services, back-up services and integration with the community? I feel that we are moving away from community integration and back into centralisation in the cities because of a lack of resources. I will leave it at that because I know other members wish to contribute.