John Gilroy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

It is even worse if a psychiatrist said it because it indicates a paternalistic approach to psychiatric and mental health care which should have gone out with the straitjacket and walled asylums. One's position on this provision is very insightful in that it gives a good idea of where one stands vis-à-vis mental health and whether one believes mental illness is a real illness. I have worked in the area for 28 years and I contend that the provisions in section 9 are absolutely legitimate on medical grounds.