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Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022
- Sponsor
- Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
- Introduced
- 30 May 2022
- Last updated
- 11 Sep 2024
What this bill doesAI · claude-haiku-4-5-20251001
- Enables commencement of the 2015 Assisted Decision-Making Act to replace wardship with functional capacity assessment for people with capacity difficulties.
- Creates two-step enduring power of attorney system: created while person has capacity, registered with Decision Support Service, activated by notification when capacity lost.
- Strengthens safeguards by creating fraud/coercion offences, expanding ineligibility criteria for decision-makers, and giving Director powers to investigate complaints informally.
Stage timelineWhat do these stages mean?
- First Stage33rd Dáil30 May 2022
- Second Stage33rd Dáil2 Jun 2022
- Committee Stage33rd Dáil2 Jun 2022
- Report Stage33rd Dáil29 Jun 2022
- Fifth Stage33rd Dáil29 Jun 2022
- Second Stage26th Seanad29 Jun 2022
- Committee Stage26th Seanad15 Sep 2022
- Report Stage26th Seanad29 Nov 2022
- Fifth Stage26th Seanad29 Nov 2022
- Cream List33rd Dáil14 Dec 2022
- Enacted17 Dec 2022
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