Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Dail Éireann — 2025-06-11
============================================================

Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

I move amendment No. 19:
In page 15, to delete lines 34 to 37 and substitute the following:
“ “registered community mental health centre” means any community-based residential centre (other than a registered acute mental health centre) registered by the Commission in accordance with Chapter 2 of Part 6 which—
(a) provides specialist mental health care and treatment for persons with an enduring mental disorder or other mental health difficulty, and
(b) is staffed on a 24 hour basis;”.
Amendment No. 19 replaces the definition of "registered community mental health centre" and defines community-based residences as residences that provide specialist mental health care and treatment and which are staffed 24 hours a day. This is to differentiate these services from acute mental health services and other community mental health services.
I do not intend to support amendment No. 20, in line with my reasoning on the grouping of amendments Nos. 13 to 17, inclusive, with regard to the term "mental disorder".
I also do not intend to support amendment No. 228. A definition of community mental health service is provided for in section 2 of the Bill and the proposed amendment here does not seem to contribute anything more than the existing definition.

---

Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted.

Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2025-06-11/debate/main
Retrieved: 2026-09-14T01:00:57+00:00
Sitting date: 2025-06-11