Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government sets out an objective to ratify the optional protocol and it is something the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, and I are working to achieve. A key step towards that was achieved by the passing of the Assisted Decision-making (Capacity) (Amendment) Act 2022. All the various elements of that are going to be commenced next week, including the operationalisation of the decision support service. The Office of the Attorney General is currently undertaking a review of other legislation to see whether there are other areas where we need to amend legislation to be fully compliant so we can sign up to the optional protocol. Once that review is in place, myself and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, will be better able to advise the House on when exactly we can achieve full ratification of the optional protocol.

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