Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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I am asking about the overall framework. We are talking about empowering people and ensuring they have the rights, but there are those who will need protections. Sometimes there are obstacles for family members or others to facilitate them and go through the process to become an assisted decision maker or even if they need greater powers. It goes beyond, where it can impact on those in the disability services who would have been able, to a degree, not to make decisions for them but to facilitate them. However, now, if they were to be given their absolute rights, they could make some pretty bad decisions.