It is not as if "mental health difficulties" trivialises someone who might require involuntary admission or treatment because you can have severe mental health difficulties just as you have mild mental health difficulties. I would not call the wording archaic but, because 90% of mental health service provision in Ireland is in communities and those people would have mental health illness and mental health difficulties, the term "mental health disorder" is more appropriate for those who are involuntarily detained or even voluntarily detained.
I do not believe amendment No. 29 is necessary as, under the Bill, a person may only be involuntarily admitted when the consultant psychiatrist believes that person has a mental disorder that meets the criteria for involuntary admission.
Key terms by TF-IDF across 3,776 words from 8 speakers. The summary quotes the highest-scoring sentences verbatim — nothing is paraphrased.
Tellers: Tá, Deputies Sorca Clarke and Liam Quaide; Níl, Deputies Mary Butler and Emer Currie.
| Question | Result | Tá–Níl |
|---|---|---|
| Amendment put: | Lost | 67–86 |
| Question put: | Carried | 86–69 |
| Question put: "That Seanad amendment No. 2 be agreed to." | Carried | 85–64 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 20–131 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 62–92 |
| Amendment put: | Lost | 64–86 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 86–69 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 87–70 |
| Question put: "That the motion be agreed to." | Carried | 86–71 |
| Question put: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." | Lost | 69–87 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 85–71 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 85–71 |
| Amendment to amendment put: | Lost | 29–89 |
| Amendment put: | Carried | 85–71 |
| Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to." | Carried | 85–71 |
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