Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion
2:00 am
Martin Daly (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail)
Regarding Mental Health Reform, there seems to be a question around language regarding mental disorder versus mental health difficulty. Does Mr. Watt agree mental health difficulties could expand to cases of how I am feeling this morning because I have had a row with my wife, for example, or how I might feel stressed here in this committee asking questions for the first time? I do not want to trivialise it because this is an important issue. It is a small number of people but detaining someone and removing their liberty should only be done as a last resort. I believe we would all accept that but there is a human right to be treated well.
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