Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion

Mr. Mervyn Taylor:

One would be a commission on care, which has been talked about for some time, but not just that in itself. The commission on care should look at the entire structure and working of the nursing home support scheme. There is a systemic bias towards care in congregated settings, which we must end. That is one issue. The second is the protection of liberties in places of care so that there is a due process of law before anybody is effectively detained. To one person it is care but to another it is custody.

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