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

Michael Collins: It is envisaged the new Mental Health Bill will replace, reform and overhaul the Mental Health Act 2001. The Bill contains over 140 sections and introduces, for the first time, a robust system of registration, regulation and inspection of all mental health services, including community CAMHS. Will this happen, however? Every week, I hold clinics all over west Cork. I know from families,...

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

Danny Healy-Rae: This is the most serious issue we have to deal with on the island of Ireland. CAMHS has a waiting list of over two years for appointments. As therapeutic supports are extremely hard to get, many doctors feel the only option available to them is to prescribe antidepressants. That is not fair on young children. Imagine a little girl of 13 years who is harming herself and whose parents have...

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

Catherine Connolly: I want to clarify something. The Rural Independent Group has this slot and 12 minutes are left. The debate adjourns at 8.21 p.m. It is between Deputy Healy-Rae and his colleague to decide, if his colleague wants to speak.

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

Danny Healy-Rae: I have to say this because it has been in my head for so long. Some years ago, a doctor and a family member could get someone in danger of harming themselves into residential care where they would be minded one to one all day and night until the person got better. We cannot do that anymore. It is not happening anymore, but it has to happen because so much of this is happening across the...

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

Richard O'Donoghue: How can we help people who suffer from mental health problems? Like everything else, we have to start at the start with early intervention. The biggest problem we have with early intervention is that services for early intervention are not available. Where they are available, people will wait for 18 months or two years. Some of the people who have come to us looking for help move into the...

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

Peter Fitzpatrick: The public interest in this Bill has been overwhelming, and it is no wonder. For too long, our mental health legislation has been outdated and people with mental health issues have faced delayed treatment, limited access to services and a lack of clarity surrounding their rights. It is in this context that the amendments to the Mental Health Bill 2024 come into play. They are critical to...

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...