Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 November 2021

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Ryan:

I agree with what Ms Grogan and Ms Coyle have said. To add one additional point in terms of some of the feedback that has come back to us, one of the current problems is that there is no complaint system around what is considered a clinical decision. People cannot challenge those decisions and find that very frustrating. They may not agree with a particular diagnosis or with a particular course of treatment or whatever and there is no way of challenging that. We believe there needs to be some mechanism where those kinds of complaints can be dealt with independently.