Ms Ber Grogan:

I will jump in quickly. I am glad Deputy Hourigan brought that up. One of the things in the heads was around how the Mental Health Commission may make codes of practice for An Garda Síochána. Again, that was something the Deputy raised already in pre-legislative scrutiny, namely, that in the final draft of the Bill, the word "may" should be changed to "shall" so that the Mental Health Commission has an input into the codes of practice that are linking in with the gardaí. That is something we will be looking very closely at when the final draft is before us.

Deputy Lahart spoke about parallel processes and things such as that. There is a high-level task force being chaired by a former Minister of State, Kathleen Lynch, looking at justice, the Probation Service, the Prison Service and people experiencing mental health difficulties. It will be interesting to see what comes out of its work.

There is a pilot happening in Limerick at the moment around the crisis intervention team. Again, it would be interesting to get more information on that. In our expert analysis, we call for gardaí to have human rights training and training around the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, de-escalation techniques and all of those aspects. It is not happening in a silo with this great subcommittee. It has resulted in conversations across the board, particularly with justice.