Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed)
Seanad Éireann — 2025-12-09
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Nessa Cosgrove (LAB), Labour Panel

I move amendment No. 17:
In page 16, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:
“ “mental health difficulty” and/or “Psychosocial disability” mean, in relation to a person, any mental illness, condition or disability, whether of a continuous or intermittent nature, which affects the person’s thinking, perception, emotion, or mood and impairs the mental function of the person;".

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Sitting date: 2025-12-09