Annie Hoey (Labour) | Oireachtas source

One of the areas that might be useful to consider is the discussion around widening the criteria for recruiting authorised officers. I think they are the only group of professionals who are legally entitled to undertake involuntary admissions so it would be removing this obligation from the Garda. There has been very slow progress on recruitment in that area so just to flag that could be a particular area that it would be very useful to focus in on. It is a small group of people but they are the ones who are quite badly affected when the system is not working quite right.