Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 8 February 2022
Joint Committee On Health
General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2022: Discussion (Resumed)
Ms Susan Clyne:
Again, it relates to the language that has been proposed in the legislation. It is the use of the word "must". There will be circumstances where that is not possible. It depends on the various members of the team, their availability and their qualifications to do some of this work. Not all the team members will be qualified to do some of this work. Team members' skills are not interchangeable. Everyone on the team has a role to play. Not just in psychiatry but in all areas of medicine, consultants work well with their multidisciplinary teams. Everybody recognises the value of all the professions within the healthcare setting. There is no inference to be taken that, because we have an issue with the use of the word "must", those team members are not important.
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