Mr. Michael Ryan:

I thank Deputy Buckley for his question. The word "vision" is used in the mental health policy, Sharing the Vision. I would like to reflect on that a little. I came into this work about ten years ago and I bring my own lived mental health experience. That is why I am employed. The progress we have made in the past ten years is significant. The first point is to acknowledge the will and desire to try to create more recovery-orientated services. The 2006 policy, which has a butterfly logo - the name escapes me but someone might fill it in - as Ms Coyle said, was about trying to move care from the institutions into the community. That work is still going on. A lot has been achieved. Sharing the Vision needs to build on that in terms of more social and peer-led services that will allow people to partner more in their own recovery. The fear for me is that we do not miss the opportunity in the Bill to embed the structures that would allow that to happen. I refer to enshrining the co-production processes and the partnership processes that are needed for truly recovery-orientated services.