Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Hopefully people will then see that there is a proactive approach and the space for them to do that and that will be an important thing to come out of this. I am a member of the Joint Sub-committee on Mental Health so I might jump to that and have two more questions if that is okay. The sub-committee undertook pre-legislative scrutiny, PLS, of the quite long-awaited Bill to reform the Mental Health Act 2001. We understand this is a priority piece for drafting and will hopefully be introduced as soon as the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, can do so. This will ideally be before the summer. Is any work being undertaken by the HSE in preparation for the implementation and reform piece that will come around that mental health Act? I appreciate that Mr. Gloster has been in post for three weeks.