Dr. Niall Muldoon:

It would be my sense that it is a starting point for anyone who is an inpatient. Usually they go in either for the prevention of suicide or to try to build them up in a way that suicide ideation does not happen again. The work that the committee is doing in putting this legislation together is all important for that and creating an inpatient unit that is much more child-centred and child-friendly, which takes their points of view on board. One of the recommendations of the Take My Hand report, from all the young people that we talked to across all the units, was that they need to be heard better. One or two nurses might talk to them and listen to them, but they still told stories of doctors sitting across the desk, talking to their mothers beside them while they were 16 years of age and listening to what was said. Prevention of suicide is built into hearing the voice of the child and acting on the voice of the child. It is not just a matter of listening and putting it away, but of acting on it. I am not sure if I have answered that question properly.