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

Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

Again, this is a technical amendment to amend the definition of capacity assessments in section 2 to clarify that capacity assessments refer to children aged 16 years or older.
In the last Bill, the age was 18, as Senators understand.

---

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