Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Dail Éireann — 2025-06-25
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

I move amendment No. 291:
In page 160, after line 13, to insert the following:
“Amendment of Health Act 2004
216. The Health Act 2004 is amended—
(a) in section 2(1), in the definition of “specialist community-based disability services”, by the substitution of “Mental Health Act 2025” for “Mental Health Acts 1945 to 2001”,
(b) in section 55A, by the substitution of the following definition for the definition of “mental health services”:
“ ‘mental health services’ means mental health services within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2025 ;”,
(c) in section 55D—
(i) by the substitution of “Chief Inspector (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2025)” for “Inspector of Mental Health Services”, and
(ii) in paragraph (b)—
(I) in subparagraph (i), by the substitution of “Mental Health Act 2025” for “Mental Health Acts 1945 to 2001”, and
(II) in subparagraph (ii), by the substitution of “made under that Act” for “made under those Acts”,
(d) in section 55G, by the substitution of the following paragraph for paragraph (c):
“(c) the Chief Inspector (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2025 ) who is in the course of a visit, inspection or inquiry carried out in accordance with section 128 of that Act,”,
and
(e) in Schedule 2A, by the substitution of “Chief Inspector (within the meaning of the Mental Health Act 2025)” for “Inspector of Mental Health Services”.”.

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