1. This Bill allows for coercive psychiatry to involuntary commit adults and children against their will.
2.  The UN (United Nations) and WHO (World Health Organisation) on the 9th October 2023 brought in a treaty to completely eliminate coercive psychiatry.
3. Ireland has ratified/signed the UN treaty to completely eliminate coercive psychiatry.
4. This bill is not in line with Ireland having ratified/signed the UN treaty to agree to eliminate coercing people into institutions, coercing people to take medication, monthly injection of drugs and also coercing people into getting ECT (electro shock) known to cause permanent brain damage. 

John 47
From a young age, I have always wanted to help people and I became a Homeopathic practitioner. While trying to help people who were vulnerable and marginalized. it had become untenable to help them. I had been working day and night. I had been fairly down and could not explain to my loved ones why I had felt this way. I soon found myself in the hands of Psychiatrists. The psychiatrist would not listen to me because all they wanted me to do was answer their silly questions. I found it difficult to explain to my loved ones what was going on in my life, let alone a psychiatrist, but I remained the same old me. 
Being committed, I was overwhelmed by 10 psychiatric nurses who forced me in a seclusion room. They forcefully injected tranquilisers in my buttocks which had its effect.  Worse still, my friends and family believed the verdict from the psychiatrist, namely that I had bipolar. If people were willing to listen to me, they too would have concluded that all I needed was rest and compassion in the form of a listening ear. I was forced to swallow psychiatric drugs and my loved ones were eager for me to continue to swallow the filth, because this is what the psychiatrist told them. The psychiatric routine preserved in segregating me from my whole family. Until one day I was rushed into an accident and emergency in the local hospital. Due to the side-effects of the drugs my potassium levels were dangerously low to the extent that it could cause seizures. After this side effect it became clear to my loved ones that reducing the drugs gradually to zero was the only option. I was lucky! so many people did not have the opportunity to convince their loved ones. Their family and friends find it difficult to believe that the mind-altering psychiatric drugs with their life undermining side-effects are really making their own lives a misery too. The mental health act enables psychiatrists to lock innocent people up against their will and to treat them like mere things. This is because psychiatric routines do not allow for personal engagement with the distressed individuals that they are supposed to care for. The mental act enables Psychiatrists and psychiatric nurses to not listen but to maintain law and order on behalf of the state with the help of life debilitating drugs and destructive electroshocking where high voltage currents are shot through the brain.

Cara 35
When taken to psychiatrists the summer I had just turned 12 years old, the women psychiatrists would be staring at me prompting me to talk, and I would talk about myself for a while. I was brought a few more times to women psychiatrists, and about the 4th time I was brought to a young psychiatrist, she kept staring at me to talk and I messed up with her. Had somebody told me at the time what a psychiatrist was, there is no way I would have said some things to her. The Psychiatrists then began rallying a very big attack against me that I was daydreaming, delusional. They told my mother, the only way I would get better is by going to an institution.

When I was brought to the Institution with my parents I walked quietly to a room with two beds in it. I saw our travel luggage bag with some of my clothes in it. I then walked around the lounge area and I was later told to queue to take medication by a nurse, I did. When I walked to the two big doors at the end of the room, It was the first time I had felt imprisioned and trapped. It was also the very first time, I felt very idle with nothing to do there. While on medication I could not read any books from the medication I was on, which was what I had liked to do. Also, the 13 weeks I was in hospital, I was constipated, nobody had told me to drink water or bottled water. I put up a lot of weight there and became unhealthy. I was only given a bath there once a month, no shower.
 I was wasting time in a psychiatric unit, wasting a further 7 weeks in a day center and I then spent 6 months in a special school before going to secondary school a year later.

Derek 40

When incarcerated under the mental health act 1945, I was judged for other people's transgressions, in other words, when I fought for my rights I was completely undermined. All conspiracy theories were given the shelving treatment, so I could still be in danger, it still would be written down as conspiracy nut. Medication was compulsory given my circumstances.
 Little things such as having to step a side for people when passing on the street as I was afraid of the dicey legal footing I'd be on should conflict arise when it came to me a "form schizo". My community rejected me and dealt me to the bottom every time. I assert this culture persisted and continued into the MHA 2001 and indeed this backdrop of stigma and shaming still is inherent today in the mental health system and the MHA 2024 does scant little to address this.

Michelle Mind freedom

1. End all forms of coercion/force in psychiatry

2. End all forced admissions, forced drugging/chemical poisoning

3. End the forced stripping, assault, battery and grievous bodily harm of vulnerable men, women and children.