Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-04-16
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Victor Boyhan (IND), Agricultural Panel

I welcome the Minister of State and her officials. I thank her for the rationale around these amendments. I hope we can conduct our business as speedily as possible. We have done all the bits of debate. I can only speak for myself, but I do not envisage much more. I thank the staff of the Minister of State for facilitating us with the small, brief and concise explanatory memorandum. That helps us to digest the information and get through a lot of it. I also want to put on the record my thanks to the Bills Office. It provided a very similar document. Everyone will be happy to know that the Bills Office and the office of the Minister of State were consistent in what they said. They are independent of each other.
This is reassuring for us and I thank the Minister of State for it.
I am happy to support the amendments but for clarity it might be no harm, as people are listening in and some Senators are not here, for confirmation that we do not have an opportunity to vote on the sections on Report Stage. I know this but, just so it is clear, it might be confirmed that we have one opportunity to speak on each amendment, so we need to be here if we want to speak to an amendment, and we will not have an opportunity to have a broad sweeping discussion on each section.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-16