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Seanad Éireann debate -
Wednesday, 21 Feb 2007

Vol. 186 No. 5

Mental Capacity and Guardianship Bill 2007: Order for Second Stage.

Bill entitled an Act to reform the law concerning mental capacity, to provide for informal decision-making on behalf of adult persons who lack capacity in certain circumstances, to establish a Guardianship Board which may appoint Personal Guardians to deal with the property, financial matters and welfare of adult persons who lack capacity, to confer jurisdiction on the High Court in certain matters, to provide for the establishment of the office of Public Guardian and to set out the functions and powers of the Public Guardian, to amend and repeal various enactments for this purpose, and for related matters.

I move: "That Second Stage be taken now."

Question put and agreed to.
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