Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-02
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

These are technical amendments to improve the readability of the Bill. These amendments replace in the Bill references to the "Child and Family Agency" to simply the "Agency". I will just repeat that because I am conscious that Senators do not have the information. We have the grouping list that shows all the amendments grouped together. These amendments replace in the Bill references to the "Child and Family Agency" to simply the "Agency". Other amendments in this grouping simplify references to parents, guardians and, where the child is the subject of a care order under the Child Care Act 1991, the Child and Family Agency.
A construction is being inserted into section 2 which allows a shorter reference to be used throughout the Bill to improve ease of reading. These amendments all come from the Department of children to simplify and improve the readability of the Bill. There is no substantive change to anything that is part of the Mental Health Bill. It is just to make the Bill more readable when it is concluded.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-02