Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick East, Labour)

It is not agreed to. This Bill will be introduced late in the afternoon and is to be guillotined at 6 p.m. Apart from objecting to the guillotine, a totally new section has been introduced into the Bill which amends the Mental Health Act 2001. This new section has nothing to do with the rest of the Bill. It deals with the removal of persons to authorised centres and with authorising people other than staff of a centre to remove persons.

Human rights issues may attach to this measure. The date of these amendments is yesterday and we are expected to deal with them in a guillotined fashion. We may not even reach this section, the content of which is totally different from the rest of the Bill. We object to the guillotine.

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