Dr. Fiona Morrissey:

I thank Deputy Hourigan and the Chairman. The issue there around cultural change is critical. We need to effect cultural change in practice and human rights training within our services. The WHO now has an equality rights training programme, which we need to implement in our services to help people to move away from coercion and challenge the assumptions that we all have around coercion. We need to use it towards a system where we are supporting people.

We do not need to use coercion. It is a practice that has built up over time. We need to move away from coercion and control under the legislation within our services as well.