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Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 3: In page 16, line 32, to delete “ “mental disorder” ” and substitute “ “mental health difficulties” ”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 5: In page 18, line 5, to delete “mental disorder or other”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: Along with my colleagues, I express my concern here about the late-stage doubling of the timeframe for involuntary treatment from 21 to 42 days in a Government amendment submitted on the deadline for Committee Stage amendments. At the moment we are discussing the necessity of a capacity assessment after 21 days. However, the 21 days itself is fundamentally problematic. The whole point of...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I clarify my remarks about the late-stage amendments. What I was referring to was over the time span of this Bill, which is a number of years, it was a late-stage amendment that was very dramatically impactful. It really altered much of this Bill. It took people by surprise and did not give sufficient time for consultation with interest groups outside of psychiatry. It is obvious that...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 34: In page 47, line 13, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 36: In page 60, to delete line 21. This amendment relates to the changes in respect of involuntary treatment. I have spoken already about my concerns about the doubling of the timeframe for that from 21 to 42 days at a very late stage of the legislative process. The expanded criteria for involuntary treatment is also very concerning. While detaining somebody on...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 39: In page 63, line 6, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 40: In page 63, to delete lines 10 and 11 and substitute the following: “(iii) the life of the person, or that of another person, is at risk, or the health of the person, or that of another person, is at risk of immediate and serious harm,”

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 41: In page 63, to delete lines 13 to 23

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 42: In page 63, line 34, to delete “or further treatment period”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 43: In page 64, line 1, to delete “or further treatment period”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 44: In page 64, lines 4 and 5, to delete “or further treatment period”

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 45: In page 64, line 7, to delete “or any further treatment period”

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 48: In page 64, line 31, to delete “and any further treatment period”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 49: In page 64, line 39, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I echo Deputy Clarke's concerns about this. The Bill provides no specific safeguards or statutory provisions governing the use of chemical restraint on persons who are subject to involuntary detention and treatment. It does not even really acknowledge the reality of chemical restraint. Chemical restraint happens quite often. It involves administering powerful sedatives to people who are...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 52: In page 69, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “Chemical restraint 57. (1) In this section, “chemical restraint” means the use of medication to control or modify a person’s behaviour when no medically identified condition is being treated, or where the treatment is not necessary for the condition or the intended effect...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 60: In page 75, between lines 20 and 21, to insert the following: “(4) Where a child is involuntarily admitted to a registered adult acute mental health centre pursuant to an involuntary admission order under section 66 that this period shall be no longer than 72 hours.”. The significant decrease in the number of admissions of children to adult...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I thank the witnesses very much for being here. I am sorry I missed the earlier part of the session but I had another engagement. We sometimes talk about the UNCRPD in this committee almost in the abstract, but I have a real-world example of a major service proposal in Cork that in my view and that of many of my colleagues represents a blatant breach of that convention. It will be a...

Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: There is a general question I want to ask that flows from it. I am not expecting the witnesses to comment on this specific case.