Annie Hoey (Labour)
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I hope everyone can hear me okay. I have a number of notes here on questions I want to ask. In its opening statement, the commission states that it wants to ensure parity between mental health issues and general health issues. I asked a question on this at our last meeting on this topic. The expert group did not recommend an independent route for making complaints. When I asked about this I was told that they were pretty much the same thing. However, they are not really because there is no independent body to which people can make complaints. What are the representatives' thoughts on that? Does the system proposed in this Bill provide parity of esteem between mental health and physical health, particularly as there is no independent route by which to make complaints while there is such a route for other health issues?