Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Orla Keane:

I will get back into that as the commission has been having tripartite discussions with the Department of Health, the Courts Service and the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on sections 136 and 85(7). This is something the commission has flagged in the 2015 Act from the beginning because there has to be parity. Our understanding from a week ago is that both of those sections will be amended.