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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 182: In page 79, line 21, to delete “view” and substitute “opinion”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 184: In page 79, line 26, to delete “view” and substitute “opinion”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 153: In page 65, line 22, to delete “centre” and substitute “registered acute mental health centre or designated centre”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 154: In page 65, between lines 33 and 34, to insert the following: “(5) A registered proprietor of a registered acute mental health centre or designated centre shall ensure that the Commission is notified, in the form and manner specified by the Commission and within the period specified by the Commission, of each application of a restrictive practice in...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 155: In page 65, line 35, after “Minister,” to insert “and following consultation with the Minister and the Minister for Justice,”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 156: In page 66, to delete lines 4 to 6 and substitute the following: “(c) the interaction of the application of a restrictive practice and the guiding principles;”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I inform the Deputies present that section 59 provides for the application of the relevant provisions of the Child Care Act 1991 to proceedings involving the courts in this Bill. I will move further amendments in this regard on Report Stage. I just wanted to flag this point.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: We did speak about this aspect last week. I explained to Deputy Clarke, and she took on board, that that amendment was ruled out of order not by me but by the Bills Office. It is important to state that good progress has been made over many years. Last year, for example, five young people aged 17 plus were admitted, with the consent of their parents, to adult psychiatric wards for a short...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 158: In page 69, line 13, to delete “view” and substitute “opinion”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 147: In page 63, line 29, after “after” to insert “the initiation of”. I do not intend to support amendment No. 148. I believe it is unnecessary because section 56 already states that a restrictive practice cannot be applied except in accordance with that section and regulations made under section 57. Just for that reason; it is already...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: We looked carefully at amendment No. 149. I had to take advice from the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel. Initially I thought that we would be able to accept it but "in the care of" is used 11 times in the Bill already. Seclusion and restraint, as the Deputy said, are some of the most serious infringements on bodily rights. Under careful consideration, the Office of the Parliamentary...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 150: In page 65, between lines 4 and 5, to insert the following: “(c) where it is the least restrictive practice possible in the circumstances,”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 151: In page 65, line 15, to delete “view” and substitute “opinion”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 152: In page 65, line 18, to delete “registered acute mental health centre or designated centre” and substitute “registered proprietor of a registered acute mental health centre or designated centre”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 132: In page 57, lines 17 and 18, to delete “ (in this Chapter referred to as “information relevant to the decision”)”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 133: In page 57, to delete line 21 and substitute the following: “(2) Subject to Sections 47, 49 and 50, a person may, at any time do either or both of the following: (a) refuse any treatment proposed to him or her; (b) withdraw his or her consent to any treatment.”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 134: In page 57, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(5) Each consent to or refusal of treatment under this Chapter shall be made in relation to the specific treatment proposed a person shall not make a decision that has the effect (whether intentional or otherwise) of providing general consent to or, as the case may be, general refusal to...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 135: In page 58, line 18, to delete “consent to, or to refuse, treatment, the consultant psychiatrist” and substitute “consent to or refuse treatment, the responsible consultant psychiatrist”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 136: In page 58, line 19, to delete “a second” and substitute “another”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 137: In page 58, line 29, after “of” to insert “a capacity assessment under subsection (1), or”.