Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In fairness, what Deputy Clarke said was a bit of a misrepresentation. The care plan is embedded in regulation but cannot be determined in the legislation. Each care plan is individual to each person who may be involuntarily detained or will be in an approved centre voluntarily. We are setting out in primary legislation that there will be a care plan. I am very keen on care plans across everything, for older people as well.

We are also setting out that there will be a psychosocial assessment, but primary legislation is not where we determine that. It is determined in secondary legislation and that is what we intend to do.

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