Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage
Dail Éireann — 2025-06-11
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Sorca Clarke (SF), Longford-Westmeath

With the greatest of respect, the Deputy has clearly not read the amendment because it specifically states:
Nothing in subsection (1) shall be construed as authorising the involuntary admission of a person to a registered acute mental health centre by reason only of the fact that the person—
(a) has a psychosocial disability or a mental illness that does not fulfil the criteria for involuntary admission,
(b) has an intellectual disability,
(c) has a personality disorder,
(d) substance use issue [and so on].

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