The Irish Senate is to consider voting out a section of the Mental Health Act which allows forced administration of ECT without consent or without any external review. The psychiatric lobby opposes this. The Wellbeing Foundation and the newly-formed Irish Network of Critical Voices in Psychiatry are for the deletion of 59.b

See also http://delete59b.com

Basil Miller, Director of Communications The Wellbeing Foundation, on Declan Meehan Show, EastCoastFM, 22/03/2011