Michael Fitzmaurice (Roscommon-Galway, Independent)
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645. To ask the Minister for Health when he expects the director of decision support services to submit the code of practice in respect of Part 8 of the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 to him for approval and publication in view of the inordinate delay since December 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43495/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Part 8 of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015 provides a legislative framework for Advanced Healthcare Directives (AHDs). The AHD multidisciplinary working group established by the Minister in 2016 has developed codes of practice for Part 8 and submitted it to the Director of Decision Support Services in December 2018 for consideration. Under the Act of 2015, the Director must put the codes out to consultation before being finalised. My Department expects to be informed of the timeline for these consultations shortly. As soon as the Department receives these timelines from the DSS, we will forward them to the TD directly.