Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2022-09-28
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Mary Seery Kearney (FG), Nominated by the Taoiseach

I absolutely agree. Carol Coulter's work on family law was fantastic and constructive. This raises another issue, which is the training of the Judiciary following this and making sure its members are absolutely conversant with the person-centred model and the interpretation of capacity, particularly when we are keeping a functional capacity test. The Judiciary must be sensitised and there must be cultural change. I know in the context of other situations there has been a lot of training of legal professionals. It is incredible and shocking that some of it was needed. The Minister might clarify this. I agree that we need it to be transparent.

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Sitting date: 2022-09-28