Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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That is good to hear because, as Mr. Ryan can imagine, for somebody such as myself who is living in that kind of world and very involved in disability rights, that is a concern. One of the things we heard from the Mental Health Commission was around renewal orders and intermediate admission and the concern that, to some extent, these changes could set up a parallel track to the 2015 legislation whereby a person could be entered into the system without full oversight or full use of the legislation already in place as well as perhaps the capacity legislation and that in a way some of the suggestions around renewal orders and intermediate admission might bring a kind of an opacity or greyness into the route of entering services. Do any of our witnesses agree with the Mental Health Commission on that or is there more work to be done in that area?