Jim O'Keeffe (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Question 30: To ask the Minister for Justice and Law Reform when the Bill on mental capacity and guardianship to implement the 2006 recommendations of the Law Reform Commission will be published; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35226/10]

Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)
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The Government Legislation Programme, published on 29 September 2010, indicates that the Mental Capacity Bill will be published in this Session. The Bill will reform the law on mental capacity taking into account the Law Reform Commission's Report on Vulnerable Adults and the Law. It is intended that the Bill will replace the Wards of Court system with a modern statutory framework governing decision-making on behalf of adults who lack capacity.