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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 135:In page 102, line 28, after “country” to insert “other than the State”.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 136:In page 102, line 28, after “Article 33” to insert “of the Convention”.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 137:In page 103, line 3, to delete “another Convention country” and substitute “a Convention country other than the State”.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 138:In page 103, lines 21 and 22, to delete “outside the State” and substitute “in a Convention country other than the State”.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 139:In page 104, line 6, after “Article 33” to insert “of the Convention”.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 140:In page 104, lines 29 and 30, to delete “a Central Authority or other competent authority in a Convention country” and substitute “a central authority in another Convention country or other competent authority in that Convention country”.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 141:In page 105, to delete lines 3 to 5. This amendment proposes to remove section 118, concerning clinical trials, from the Bill. Decisions on clinical trials involving persons who lack capacity should more appropriately be addressed in legislation under the remit of the Department of Health. Having reviewed the matter, I have concluded that it would not be desirable...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: Before I read out the official response, with which I agree, I must say that when we put in place a group to review the Mental Health Act, we continuously stressed that its members had to take cognisance of the fact that we were also developing capacity legislation. The group's recommendations around this issue are quite interesting. We are currently devising the general scheme of a Bill to...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I appreciate the Deputy's co-operation.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 81:In page 70, to delete lines 18 to 37.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 84:In page 70, to delete lines 38 and 39, and in page 71, to delete lines 1 to 25.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 88:In page 72, to delete lines 16 and 17 and substitute the following:"(b) the powers (if any) conferred on the representative in accordance with section 69(1)(b);".

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 89:In page 72, line 27, to delete "important". These amendments, which relate to provisions in Part 9 dealing with advanced health care directives, do not involve any substantive changes to the underlying policy of those provisions. They are minor technical amendments to refine the language in the sections in question to clarify more precisely the intention of the...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 90:In page 72, line 30, to delete "within the meaning of section 63".

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 91:In page 73, lines 1 to 3, to delete all words from and including "which" in line 1 down to and including "subsection (12)" in line 3.

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 92:In page 73, to delete lines 33 to 35 and substitute the following:"(iv) the signature of the designated healthcare representative (if any) and the date that the representative signed the directive;".

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 93:In page 75, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following:"(13) In this section, "immediate family member" means—(a) a spouse, civil partner, or cohabitant, (b) a child, step-child, son-in-law or daughter-in-law, (c) a parent, step-parent, mother-in-law or father-in-law, (d) a brother, sister, step-brother, step-sister, brother-in-law or sister-in-law, (e)...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 94:In page 75, lines 8 and 9, to delete "inconsistent with the directive remaining as his or her fixed decision" and substitute "inconsistent with the relevant decisions outlined in the directive".

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 95:In page 75, line 13, to delete "broadly recognisable" and substitute "materially the same".

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Bill 2013: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (21 Oct 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: I move amendment No. 96:In page 75, to delete lines 15 to 18 and substitute the following:"(c) at the time in question the circumstances set out in the directive as to when the specific treatment is to be requested or refused, as the case may be, are absent or not materially the same.".