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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 122: In page 53, line 7, to delete “consultant” and substitute “responsible consultant”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 123: In page 53, line 13, to delete “consultant” and substitute “responsible consultant”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputies for those comments. To be clear, this is for people who are involuntarily detained. It will be written into the Bill, if it passes through the Houses of the Oireachtas, that a psychosocial assessment will be provided within two days. That is actually in the Bill, but what it does not specify is what the psychosocial assessment will be, which would never be expected in...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: In fairness, what Deputy Clarke said was a bit of a misrepresentation. The care plan is embedded in regulation but cannot be determined in the legislation. Each care plan is individual to each person who may be involuntarily detained or will be in an approved centre voluntarily. We are setting out in primary legislation that there will be a care plan. I am very keen on care plans across...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 73: In page 33, lines 17 and 18, to delete “in relation to a person, the subject of a recommendation for involuntary admission, means” and substitute “means, in relation to a person the subject of a recommendation for involuntary admission,”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 74: In page 33, lines 23 to 32, to delete all words from and including “(1) Where” in line 23 down to and including line 32 and substitute the following: “(1) Where a clinical director receives a recommendation for involuntary admission under section 16 in respect of a person, the clinical director shall as soon as may be arrange for a consultant...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 77: In page 33, line 33, to delete “subsection (1)(a)" and substitute “subsection (1)".

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 79: In page 33, lines 35 and 36, to delete “for the involuntary admission”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 82: In page 34, line 4, to delete “subsection (1)(a)” and substitute “subsection (1)”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 83: In page 34, to delete lines 7 to 9.

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.".