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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 228: In page 120, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “ “community mental health services” means a mental health service which provides either urgent or routine care and treatment in a place other than a registered acute mental health centre or registered community mental health centre, including such services as crisis...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Amendment No. 213 is fairly simple. It seeks to align the vision from previously published documents and promote distributed leadership across mental health services. Twice earlier this evening, I spoke on the wrong amendment at the wrong time, but this is the one I was speaking of. Throughout the document, there are references to consultant psychiatrists, whether that be child or adult...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 212: In page 109, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(3) The Commission shall within 12 months publish a report on the quality and independence of complaints processes and make recommendations for the strengthening of such processes.”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I fully agree with the Minister of State's point about social media - I will not drag this on much longer, a Cheann Comhairle - particularly on the issue of eating disorders. This really strikes me. I remember when I was a teenager that the pro-ana or pro-anorexia movement was on MySpace and Bebo. This is not a new phenomenon but we have to get to the bottom of it because people are losing...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 206: In page 95, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(e) prepare and issue a code of practice for— (i) the conduct of psychosocial and capacity assessments, and (ii) the formulation and implementation of collaborative care plans, (f) review and update such codes of practice periodically, and (g) consult with service users,...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 211: In page 108, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(d) the progress towards and resource requirements for the extension of CAMHS towards a CYMHS for young people up to the age of 25, and the development of youth mental health clinical specialty, (e) the estimated number of whole-time equivalent clinicians to fully and safely staff public...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive response. She should absolutely go to every single CAMHS team to find out what the best practice is and have it replicated around the country. This should be standard procedure. However, for those 763 kids who are waiting more than a year for a CAMHS appointment, that is not what their parents or guardians want to hear. They want to know...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I also have that in a reply to a parliamentary question that it does not keep a record of the children it does not see. To get a holistic and overarching view, those critical pieces of information and data must be collated. The tracking of the child's needs from when they present to when they accept or receive an offer of services is vital. What we will find is children who have been...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Brilliant.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The consistency.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Amendment No. 206 seeks to require a formal code of practice for assessments and care planning, ensuring all service users receive a consistent rights-based standard of care in all services. Sinn Féin seeks clear binding guidance on any assessments carried out, including capacity and care planning, to help to protect individuals' rights and ensure ethical accountable decision-making....

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I want to make a brief comment on section 92 as a whole. My amendment also was ruled out of order because of a potential charge on the State. I find that any amendment which explicitly refers to a statutory right to advocacy could be ruled out of order will be a very tough pill to swallow for a lot of the advocates, patients and service users. With respect to Deputy Quaide, amendment...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides on this. It is something on which we have an obligation and we have a moral obligation that we should get this right. It is a rather vulnerable age group at the best of times before a young person needs a form of care, be it medical or mental health-related. I am willing to meet the Minister of State halfway on this and try to find a way we can...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 186: In page 89, line 11, to delete “may provide for any or all of” and substitute “shall provide for”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 185: In page 88, line 31, to delete “without” and substitute “except after having considered all viable alternatives and with”. This amendment strengthens the rights of individuals receiving mental health treatment by tightening the conditions under which treatment can proceed without consent. It seeks to remove the vague and overly...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I want to put on record my real disappointment that our proposed amendment No. 157 was ruled out of order. This was raised last Wednesday when we were here. Not only is it a missed opportunity to ensure this legislation is compliant with the requirements of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, but it is a breach of children's rights under the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 146: In page 60, line 17, to delete “unless” and substitute “except after having considered all viable alternatives and”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I will speak on amendments Nos. 148 and 149. Amendment No. 148 sought to provide legal consistency throughout the Bill. The amendment sought to tie the provision directly to the safeguards already outlined in section 56, ensuring consistency and coherence throughout the legislation. It also sought to strengthen patient protections by explicitly linking actions to sections. It reinforces...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 148: In page 63, line 30, after “applied” to insert “in accordance with section 56 and”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 149: In page 63, lines 30 and 31, to delete “in the care of” and substitute “present in”.