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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: 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: The use of the term "mental disorder" is archaic and pathologising. Language reflects reality but also shapes it, and the term "mental disorder" is reductive medicalising. It has the potential to objectify people with mental health difficulties. We have had a long history of that and stigmatisation. This is something we need to move away from, not only in our concrete actions but also in...

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”.

Transparency for Supermarket Profits: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: The cost-of-living crisis in Ireland can no longer be considered a transient hardship. For much of our population, it has become an entrenched form of social injustice with a vast array of adverse outcomes, both short-term and potentially far-reaching for the many people caught up in it. Nowhere is this crisis more obvious for hard-pressed families than in the weekly grocery shop, which has...

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.

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

Liam Quaide: The reason I keep bringing up this topic is that it just feels like an unstoppable process now. The HSE is intent on pushing ahead with this project. I raised it with the National Disability Authority because it had the UNCRPD as a central focus of its presentation and I was disappointed its view was that it could only comment in general terms about the UNCRPD and not about a specific...

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

Liam Quaide: I thank Mr. Herrick.

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

Liam Quaide: The Government has indicated that it intends to review the Disability Act 2005 and that it sees the current assessment of need process as hampering its ability to resource therapies for children with additional needs. That intention is creating a lot of concern among families, advocacy groups and clinicians. There are children who would benefit from low-intensity or short-term intervention...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (8 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: 139. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide an update on the programme for Government commitment to reduce the student contribution fee over the lifetime of the Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [37637/25]