Ms Ber Grogan:

I will be quick. I echo what Ms Mallon has said. This is very important legislation. We have been waiting so long for it and it will bring about significant and positive change. We just need to make sure that people with mental health difficulties are not excluded from it. As outlined in our submission and as Ms Coyle stated, we need the provisions to be extended to people who are involuntarily detained under Part 4 of the Mental Health Act 2001. We urge the committee to do so.

That links in with Disabled Women Ireland and its point around privacy. It is a brilliant group of women. If the interpretation of the Act will be about the person and his or her will and preference, choices and consent, that person should be the one asked whether this information should be shared. The person will have that control.

It is going to be about that culture shift, the training, the sea change, and education and awareness about the person's right to make decisions. The reason I put my hand up earlier was because - we do this quite often in mental health reform in our online meetings and probably and before online times - some people listening today might have found some of the topics of discussion difficult, upsetting or triggering. For anyone listening who may have been through mental health difficulties, has been involuntarily detained or has been through any of the other issues we are talking about with institutions, we are talking about these issues very frankly but we all really care, and there are supports available online. That is something I want to flag because I know people can get upset.