Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Dail Éireann — 2025-06-11
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

I move amendment No. 22:
In page 16, to delete lines 12 and 13 and substitute the following:
“ “relative” means, in relation to a person, a parent, grandparent, son, daughter, grandchild, sibling, aunt or uncle of the person by blood, adoption, marriage or civil partnership;”.
This amendment changes the definition of "relative" by taking first cousins out of the definition. This definition aligns with the definition of "relative" in the Mental Health Act 2001.

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