Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 282a:

In page 160, after line 13, to insert the following:

“Amendment of section 136 of Act of 2015

208. The Act of 2015 is amended by the substitution of the following section for section 136:

“Involuntarily admitted persons whose treatment is regulated by Chapter 3 of Part 3 of Act of 2025

136. (1) Nothing in this Act authorises a person—

(a) to give an involuntarily admitted person treatment for a mental disorder, or

(b) to consent to an involuntarily admitted person being given treatment for a mental disorder,

if, at the time when it is proposed to treat the involuntarily admitted person, his or her treatment is regulated by Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Act of 2025, unless the treatment concerned is authorised in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 3 of the Act of 2025.

(2) In this section, ‘mental disorder’, ‘involuntarily admitted person’ and ‘treatment’ have the same meaning as they have in the Act of 2025.”.”.

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