Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2025-06-18
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

I move amendment No. 172:
In page 78, to delete lines 20 to 25 and substitute the following:
“(4) Where a member of An Garda Síochána takes a child into custody under subsection (1) and the parents of the child, or either of them, or guardian, or, in the case of a child the subject of a care order, the Child and Family Agency are contacted, the child shall be released into the care of that person or persons, unless in the opinion of the member or members of An Garda Síochána responsible for the child there is an immediate and serious risk to the health or welfare of the child by releasing the child into the care of that person or persons.”.

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