Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages
Dail Éireann — 2025-07-09
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

Again, I am satisfied. It is a massive piece of legislation, as the Deputy knows, with 220 different sections. A huge number of changes will be made to how we deliver mental health services and there will also be major changes for those who deliver mental health services. It will be a staggered, incremental roll-out of the Bill, in terms of a review for a service that might only be up and running for six or nine months. By the time we get to the five years, I expect that all the services will have been well embedded for about two or three years at that stage and that is the reasoning behind it. Nonetheless, I appreciate where the Deputy is coming from.

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