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Sinn Féin spokesperson on Mental Health, Mark Ward TD, has called for Part 5 of the Emergency Measures in the Public Interest (Covid-19) Act 2020 to be repealed.
Part 5 provides for amendments to the Mental Health Act 2001, which allows Mental Health Tribunals to be reduced to one-member paper-based tribunals, and minimum personal interaction…