Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

I move amendment No. 284:

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

“Amendment of Coroners Act 1962

209. (1) The Coroners Act 1962 is amended—

(a) in section 2, in the definition of “State custody or detention”—

(i) by the deletion of paragraph (d), and

(ii) by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (d):

“(da) involuntarily admitted under Part 3 or 4 of the Mental Health Act 2025 to a registered acute mental health centre (within the meaning of that Act);”,

and

(b) in section 60(5), by the insertion of the following paragraph after paragraph (d):

“(da) the deceased was, at the time of his or her death or immediately before his or her death, involuntarily admitted under Part 3 or 4 of the Mental Health Act 2025 to a registered acute mental health centre (within the meaning of that Act),”.

(2) The amendments of the Coroners Act 1962 effected by subsection (1) shall not apply in relation to the death of a person that occurred before the commencement of this section.”.

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