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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”.

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

Sorca Clarke: I am not sure whether this was a genuine oversight, but amendment No. 140's subsection (3)(a) references "A responsible consultant psychiatrist". However, under the section of the interpretation No. 2, in the Bill in the area that deals with discharge No. 4 under No. 41, refusal of treatment No. 50, section 91, it also refers to the multidisciplinary team-----

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

Sorca Clarke: I am discussing amendment No. 140.

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

Sorca Clarke: My apologies. For once, I am ahead of schedule.

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

Sorca Clarke: I am unsure if this is a genuine error. Under amendment 140, section 47(3)(a) references "A responsible consultant psychiatrist may extend an initial treatment period". However, under section 2 on interpretations, the area that deals with discharge under section 41, refusal of treatment under section 50, where the Bill proceeds to speak about children - section 91 under care plans - and...

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

Sorca Clarke: I will raise the matter again as we get to other sections of the Bill.

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

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 145: In page 60, between lines 14 and 15, to insert the following: “Safeguards for Treatment Without Consent (1) No person shall be administered treatment without their consent unless a formal capacity assessment has been completed and the person has been found to lack the capacity to consent to the treatment in question, in accordance with the provisions of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Initially, I have to say I am absolutely horrified that HIQA representatives would come in here and say that RTÉ has more information than they do. You are the regulator of nursing homes. You are the people families put their trust in. That is beyond my scope of understanding, how you can say that to an Oireachtas committee. I do not accept the explanation the witnesses provided...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Of the notifications that have gone to the Garda, why did this only happen after the RTÉ documentary aired? Why did it not happen prior?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: HIQA was aware but it did not notify the Garda until after the broadcast.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Standards of Care, Related Practices and Oversight in Nursing Homes: Discussion (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: And what RTÉ is broadcasting, clearly.