Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 15 February 2022
Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth
General Scheme of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)
Mr. Joe McGrath:
If the person being supported by the decision maker is not directly asked the questions, how in the name of God will the decision maker get to know me and the decisions I want made? If I am allowed to drive a car and can practically do so, I could drive the car without a licence but I need the paperwork, namely, a licence, to prove I can drive it on the road. We have not had any information from the decision makers on who will be making a decision on the law. Nobody has spoken to the platform or me, nor have I seen any information in newspapers, radio stations, RTÉ or any of the broadcasting stations that would cover this Bill. Some of us like to listen to the radio to hear news coverage of what is in happening in the world, especially in the world of politics. We do not have much trust in the Decision Support Service or the law as we were not included from the start. How can we trust something in which we were been included in the first place?