Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Lynn Ruane (IND), University of Dublin

I will respond very briefly because I have spoken extensively on it now. I may bring in some amendments on Report Stage to potentially tease it out a little bit more. That is a fair point around the fact that there would be in-reach mental health within Oberstown but what it affects is the regime under which the young person is held. We would have some young people who are kept away from other young people or given restricted regimes, and that might be part of the involuntary piece. It is not that they are moving from one facility to a different facility and they are held in the different facility for the involuntary care, but as part of the mental health order there may be a difference of regime. I may be wrong on that. I have spoken enough on it. I may come back on Report Stage in order that it is abundantly clear at what stage parents can have involvement in the mental health care of their children while they are in a facility such as Oberstown.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09