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Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: By not accepting the amendment and not recognising the value of the two and a half year interim review, the Minister of State is closing the door on potential learnings for the new parts of the Bill that may not be enacted or may not be fully in place. There may be very valuable learnings from parts of the Bill that have been enacted and the services that have been in place for two and a...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Butler: Again, I am satisfied. It is a massive piece of legislation, as the Deputy knows, with 220 different sections. A huge number of changes will be made to how we deliver mental health services and there will also be major change for those who deliver mental health services. It will be a staggered, incremental roll-out of the Bill, in terms of a review for a service that might only be up and...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 2: In page 16, to delete lines 32 to 35 and substitute the following: “ “mental health difficulty” and/or “psychosocial disability” mean, in relation to a person, any mental disorder, illness or disability, whether of a continuous or intermittent nature, which affects the person’s thinking, perception, emotion, or mood and...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: The use of the term "mental disorder" is archaic and pathologising. Language reflects reality but also shapes it, and the term "mental disorder" is reductive medicalising. It has the potential to objectify people with mental health difficulties. We have had a long history of that and stigmatisation. This is something we need to move away from, not only in our concrete actions but also in...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Butler: I do not intend to rehearse the extensive debate on similar amendments which Deputy Clarke raised on Committee Stage. I acknowledge the amendment tabled by Deputy Quaide. I already moved the Government amendment on Committee Stage to amend the definition of "mental disorder" by inserting references to "serious" and "significant" in the definition to address concerns the definition was...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendment put and declared lost.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 3: In page 16, line 32, to delete “ “mental disorder” ” and substitute “ “mental health difficulties” ”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendment put and declared lost.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Amendment No. 4 has been ruled out of order. It was previously rejected in a committee of the whole Dáil.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendment No. 4 not moved.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 5: In page 18, line 5, to delete “mental disorder or other”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendment put and declared lost.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 have been ruled out of order. They were previously rejected in a committee of the whole Dáil.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendments Nos. 6 and 7 not moved.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: Amendments Nos. 8, 26, 33, 50, 53, 72, 74 to 86, inclusive, 89, 90, 92 to 96, inclusive, 105 to 109, inclusive, and 118 to 120, inclusive, are related and may be discussed together.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 8: In page 21, lines 4 and 5, to delete “Public Expenditure, National Development Plan Delivery and Reform” and substitute “Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation”. The amendments in this grouping are all technical amendments relating to changes required to ministerial titles previously used in the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Amendment agreed to.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages (9 Jul 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 9: In page 21, line 9, after “Act” to insert “and shall carry out an interim review after 2.5 years”. This is an area that has me very concerned. While five years is some progress, it is not enough. The Government has the opportunity here to put some very real and substantial oversight into the Bill by accepting the Sinn Féin...

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Cathal Crowe: I travelled with the Deputy on the train recently and we had a good sing-song. It was a very memorable trip. We will finish this segment with a statement from the Minister. Deich nóiméad le do thoil.

All-Island Strategic Rail Review: Statements (Resumed) (9 Jul 2025)

Seán Canney: The first thing I want to do is wish Kerry and Meath the best of luck next weekend. I thank all the Deputies for their contributions during this afternoon's debate and also last week's debate. They can see from my record and my opening statement that there is a continued commitment in investment in public transport with the significant progress that has been made over the last few years in...