Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children

Photo of Gino KennyGino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

A second clarification is in regard to the intermediate or voluntary persons. I will paraphrase the contents of this paragraph. It states that the idea that admission of a child under 16 on the basis of parental consent constitutes a voluntary admission appears to the Ombudsman to be fundamentally flawed. Why would that be fundamentally flawed?

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