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

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 25: In page 32, line 39, to delete “for recommendation” and substitute “for a recommendation”. I will move amendments Nos. 25, 46, 62, 65, 97 to 101, inclusive, and 112, which have been grouped. These are all technical amendments required to correct various typographical errors in the Bill as amended.

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)

Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 26: In page 33, line 36, after “Justice” to insert “, Home Affairs and Migration”.

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)

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Tá leasuithe Uimh. 27 agus 28 as ord.

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

Amendments Nos. 27 and 28 not moved.

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

Aengus Ó Snodaigh: Amendments Nos. 29 and 30 are related and may be discussed together.

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

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 29: In page 37, line 22, after “for” to insert “no more than”. As the Chair said, amendments Nos. 29 and 30 are related. They concern one of the issues that has most frequently been brought to my attention since Committee Stage of the Bill, namely, the extension of the involuntary detention period from 21 days to, potentially, 42 days....

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

Marie Sherlock: I support amendment No. 30. The rationale for this extension is far from clear. It is obviously a matter of great concern to those who understand the intricacies of involuntary detention or involuntary treatment, the timeframe and the process surrounding all that. Those who have approached us, and I think everybody in the Opposition, believe there are very significant grounds for...

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

Mary Butler: I do not believe amendment No. 29 is necessary as, under the Bill, a person may only be involuntarily admitted when the consultant psychiatrist believes that person has a mental disorder that meets the criteria for involuntary admission. If at any point during the person's admission the responsible consultant psychiatrist no longer believes the person meets the criteria for involuntary...

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

Amendment put: The Dáil divided: Tá, 64; Níl, 86; Staon, 0. Tellers: Tá, Deputies Sorca Clarke and Liam Quaide; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.

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

Tá Ciarán Ahern, Ivana Bacik, Cathy Bennett, John Brady, Pat Buckley, Joanna Byrne, Matt Carthy, Sorca Clarke, Rose Conway-Walsh, Ruth Coppinger, Réada Cronin, Seán Crowe, David Cullinane, Jen Cummins, Pa Daly, Máire Devine, Pearse Doherty, Paul Donnelly, Aidan Farrelly, Mairéad Farrell, Michael Fitzmaurice, Gary Gannon, Sinéad Gibney, Thomas Gould, Ann...

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

Amendment declared lost.

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

Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Clarke for the amendment. Section 8 of the Bill provides for a review of the operation of this enactment five years after its commencement. If it is necessary for a review to be carried out sooner than five years after the commencement of this enactment, that option will be available to the Government of the day. Section 8 of the Bill provides for a review to take place not...

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

Sorca Clarke: I understand that completely. My concern is that “not later than five years” can mean four years and 364 days. I want to see something that is more tangible, and I think it needs to be put into this Bill. While five years is a standardised approach, two and a half years is much more effective because it allows us, as legislators, to make the appropriate changes as soon as...

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

Mary Butler: I am satisfied with the five years. The whole Bill will not all be enacted on the same day. I expect the parts of it regarding the governance of CAMHS and community premises to come first. The changeover in age verification and the piece in regard to voluntary detention and the Garda may take longer until we have all the authorised officers in place. To set a definitive timeline of two...

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...