Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I will be brief because I have said as much as I need to say on this issue. The Bill provides that while the decision support service will, in the first instance, lay its report before the Minister for Health, it will also lay it before the Minister for Justice and Equality because the Minister for Justice and Equality has responsibility for the legislation. The Minister for Health simply has responsibility for the Mental Health Commission. That is how it will be done. It is not as if it will be one Department or the other. It is simply the case that the Department of Justice and Equality has responsibility for the legislation and the Minister for Health has responsibility for the Mental Health Commission. The report will then be laid before the Houses of the Oireachtas.

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