Results 301-320 of 12,004 for speaker:Mary Butler
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 84: In page 34, line 11, to delete “subsection (1)(a),” and substitute “subsection (1) or”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 85: In page 34, lines 12 and 13, to delete “or carrying out an assessment under subsection (1)(b), as the case may be”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 86: In page 34, between lines 16 and 17, to insert the following: “(6) An involuntary admission order shall be made in the form and manner specified by the Commission.”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 87: In page 34, line 27, to delete “further extended” and substitute “extended”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I cannot answer that question specifically. Authorised officers are paid a kind of overtime for work additional to their regular work. I anticipate that many authorised officers will do this in addition to their day jobs. Many of these requests are made out of hours and at weekends.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I am not understanding the question. What I am saying is that the estimate for the cost to get to the number we need is an additional €3.5 million. I imagine that would relate to those who are working part time. I can get more details and reply to the Deputy next week or on Report Stage.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: That is the cost of the additional authorised officers.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I do not know. I will dig into that for the Deputy.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 62: In page 29, line 15, to delete "a Superintendent or Chief Superintendent" and substitute "a member of An Garda Síochána not below the rank of Inspector".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 63: In page 29, between lines 26 and 27, to insert the following: "(4) Where an authorised officer or the Executive, as the case may be, receives a Garda request for an application for a recommendation for involuntary admission, the authorised officer or the Executive, as the case may be, shall comply with that request as soon as practicable.".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 64: In page 30, line 26, to delete "the" and substitute "An".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 65: In page 30, line 28, to delete "the" where it firstly occurs and substitute "An".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 66: In page 30, line 29, after "centre" to insert "or a consultant psychiatrist acting on that clinical director’s behalf".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 67: In page 30, lines 34 and 35, to delete "when a person is taken into custody under this section" and substitute the following: "when a member or members of An Garda Síochána perform functions under this section or under section 19, 39, 71, 77 or 131".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 68: In page 30, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following: "(10) Where a recommendation for involuntary admission is made by a registered medical practitioner under this section, a copy of the recommendation shall be provided by the registered medical practitioner to the member of An Garda Síochána who is responsible for the person who is taken into...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 69: In page 30, line 41, to delete “but not later than 12 hours”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 70: In page 31, line 25, after "request" to insert "as soon as practicable".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 71: In page 31, line 35, to delete "view" and substitute "opinion".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 72: In page 32, to delete line 38 and substitute the following: "(3) If, upon the proposed discharging from hospital of a person the subject of a recommendation for involuntary admission—". I will speak first to amendment No. 93. This amendment provides for a stand-alone section relating to psychosocial assessments to be carried out within two working...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I agree wholeheartedly. As I said, 174 is the most recent figure I received. In order for this important aspect of the Bill to work, we need sufficient authorised officers. It is hard to judge how many will be needed. Authorised officers made 16% of applications in 2023, while gardaí made 32%. This means that one sixth of applications were made by authorised officers. I agree that...