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Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Carol Nolan: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to this very important debate on the Mental Health Bill 2024, which, I acknowledge, the Minister of State has personally prioritised. The Bill proposes to deal with some of the most complex and contentious aspects of mental health treatment, particularly those involving consent and involuntary admission of persons who may lack capacity. Many of the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Question again proposed: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time."

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Gino Kenny: I welcome this Bill. It was a long time coming. It is about two and a half years since it was before the Sub-Committee on Mental Health and I do not know why it has taken that long to come to this juncture, but I am sure the Minister of State has her reasons. It was 23 years ago that we last had a comprehensive review of mental health care. The Bill was probably cutting-edge, to a certain...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Sep 2024)

Paul Donnelly: I welcome the Bill. There are many aspects of it we welcome. It is a step in the right direction and many mental health stakeholders are supportive and agree on many of the issues related to it, but unfortunately, due to delays, I do not believe it will be introduced within the lifetime of this Government. That is unfortunate. Mental health is a huge problem in all our communities. I...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: The next speaker will be from People Before Profit Solidarity. I know that Members are being caught because the debate is moving quickly and I know many of them want to speak on it, so I am just going to read out the Topical Issue Matters.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Debate adjourned.

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (18 Sep 2024)

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (18 Sep 2024)

Catherine Connolly: I wish to advise the House of the following matters in respect of which notice has been given under Standing Order 37 and the name of the Member in each case: Deputy Pearse Doherty - to discuss the presence of defective concrete blocks in a community playgroup in Ardara, County Donegal. Deputy James O'Connor - to discuss flood relief measures in the east Cork region. Deputy Danny Healy-Rae -...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: I agree.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: Thank you. I would ask that you give this further consideration ahead of Committee Stage. In respect of CAMHS, I would like to jump ahead to Part 6 of the Bill, the regulation of mental health services. I will return to other important provisions but, as the Minister of State will know, this is an issue I have been pursuing with her for some time. While I very much welcome the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome the opportunity to examine the Bill. I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and her officials for their work on this important legislation. We in Fianna Fáil believe in the delivery of fundamental health services to the highest standard through investment, innovation and reform. We support the Bill, which will give effect to recommendations of the expert group review...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome this long-awaited Bill to replace the Mental Health Act 2001, which we in the Social Democrats are happy to support. As we know, this is important and complex legislation. It will require further scrutiny on Committee Stage, and I certainly hope that the Minister of State will be open to taking amendments, that we can work on it in a collegiate way and that we will have time to...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Rose Conway-Walsh: While I welcome this Bill and the vital and long-overdue protections it will help to guarantee for citizens of the State, I despair at the snail's pace of progress on reform in mental health services, and even more crucially, on the provision of those services for those people who need them. As I was sitting here, I was imagining if previous Governments had really resourced A Vision for...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: It feels like an overdue relief that this Bill has finally made it to the floor of the Dáil. It is long overdue and it has been a long road to get here and rightfully there are concerns from all of us as to whether this legislation can be progressed in however long left there is left in the lifetime of this Government. To make it the first key legislation to be discussed after the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Maurice Quinlivan: At the outset, I acknowledge that in the main, the Bill is positive. It is encouraging to see the Government adopt many of the recommendations of the expert review group. The Bill is a positive advancement in supporting those with mental health challenges. However the delay in publishing the Bill is disappointing. The Government had four years to produce a Bill. To do so in the last...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Pa Daly: Before I mention CAMHS and aspects of the Bill, I wish to raise the situation regarding the Ocean View nursing home in Camp, County Kerry. I attended a briefing by the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation earlier. One of the calls in its pre-budget submission was the operation and delivery of long-term care and to reverse the privatisation of long-term care. As the Minister of State...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Mary Butler: By HIQA.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Pa Daly: By HIQA, and the HSE has now come in and is the current provider of care. HIQA did commend Theresa Winter and all her staff for providing first-rate care for the residents there. All the staff in that nursing home are directly employed by the HSE now. The families have received letters. I have a copy of one here which says that it was necessary to make alternative arrangements for the...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Mark Ward: While I acknowledge and welcome the publication of this Bill and recognise the hard work done by the Minister of State, and her officials to get to this stage, it is long overdue. A general scheme of this legislation was approved in 2015 but was not produced until 2021. I was a member of the Sub-Committee on Mental Health that did the pre-legislative scrutiny of the Bill in November 2021....