Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Patricia Stephenson (SD), Labour Panel

The Minister of State mentioned longer term or lifelong challenges or conditions versus more transient mental health issues. It is worth pointing out that plenty of people experience quite severe transient conditions such as premenstrual dysphoric disorder where women experience severe suicidal ideation. It is important to say that lots of very severe mental health conditions can be transient and it is not necessarily somebody living with a condition that is long term, be it long-term psychosis, where he or she needs to be treated. I wanted to flag that because it is a really important distinction to make.

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09