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

I move amendment No. 68:
In page 30, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:
"(10) Where a recommendation for involuntary admission is made by a registered medical practitioner under this section, a copy of the recommendation shall be provided by the registered medical practitioner to the member of An Garda Síochána who is responsible for the person who is taken into custody under subsection (1) , or another member on his or her direction, for inclusion in the custody record (within the meaning of Regulation 6 of the Criminal Justice Act 1984 (Treatment of Persons in Custody in Garda Síochána Stations) Regulations 1987 (S.I. No. 119 of 1987)) in respect of the person the subject of the recommendation for involuntary admission.".

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