Professor Brendan Kelly:

I came here this morning to articulate the need for safeguarding for people with enduring mental illness who are outside of congregated settings, as well as those in them, and including people outside institutions, moving between the criminal justice system and health system and so forth. There are initiatives under way with legislation and so forth that should be finished.

Perhaps the second point I want to make is slipping very comfortably into my role as the optimist here this morning, which is to say that positive change is indeed possible. We have a very dedicated and highly skilled workforce. We have all spoken about the system. As practitioners, regulators and legislators, in a sense, we are the system and well positioned. Sometimes changing the system will mean changing ourselves.