Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-02
============================================================

Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

To be clear, these are all technical amendments which have been worked out with the Department of children, the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel and the Department of Health. I will not be touching on care orders here because this does not deal with care orders. This just deals with improving the readability of the Bill to change the references from the "Child and Family Agency" to simply the "Agency" and to change 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. That is all it is doing. It is technical in nature. It seems like a huge number of amendments. Tonight, we will be dealing with a lot of technical amendments to improve the readability of the Bill to include references from the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, and later on in relation to the Department of justice. We will get into the substantive issues relating to the Mental Health Bill as we move forward. I will discuss care orders at a later stage when the amendments deal with care orders.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/seanad/2025-12-02/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:54:23+00:00
Sitting date: 2025-12-02