Submission to the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform on the Scheme of the Mental Capacity Bill 2008

December 2009
The focus of this submission is on the Scheme as it relates to persons with mental health difficulties, and was informed by the research paper detailed below. AI strongly welcomes the Government’s decision to conduct this long over-due reform of existing legislation and the Government’s intention to ratify the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).