Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party)
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I thank Dr. Morrissey. I will finish with a short discussion around the issue of coercive control. It overlaps a little with the discussion around involuntary treatments. Our guests have done a brilliant job of outlining the concerns around coercive control and how it relates to issues such as involuntary treatments. Is that a larger or separate piece of work or something they would see threaded through this legislation? It is back to the question whether coercive control is something that goes beyond the scope of when a person is an inpatient, whether is similar to independent advocacy in that it should be a consideration throughout a person's experience of service provision, and where that would best live and how we would address that. I do not know who wants to answer that. It is an open question.