Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children

Dr. Niall Muldoon:

Again, I am not very well-placed in this regard but my understanding, from a number of cases we have heard here, is the medical team and the parents will take over. If there is an imminent threat to life then the medical obligations are to retain life and to maintain life. I assume the parents would step in and support that. That is my understanding.