I propose an amendment to the Order of Business to the effect that No. 12 on the Order Paper be taken before No. 1. The Bill I wish to introduce aims to right a long-standing anomaly. At present, 16 and 17 year olds can give consent on their physical or dental health but they must be 18 to consent to mental health treatment. The expert review of the Mental Health Act recommended this be addressed without delay, and this is what I am doing today. The legislation is about rights and stating mental health should be treated with the same set of principles as physical health. It is about young people having rights over their own mental healthcare. It is about the stigmatising mental health. It is apt that it would take place in this month of May, which is mental health month. It has been drafted carefully with our internal drafters here and with the guidance of young mental health advocates. I hope that Senators on all sides will support the Bill.

I second Senator Devine's proposed amendment.

I would like to comment on the royal wedding. I agree with my colleague about this. The royal family is extremely popular in Ireland and always has been. I remember well when Princess Margaret was getting married and there was an electricity strike. The women of Ireland ganged up and forced the ESB workers back for two hours so that they could watch the royal wedding. It was marvellous.

The Queen, her gracious majesty by God ordained, is three times directly descended from Brian Boru, once from Hugh O'Neill, rebel Earl of Tyrone, and Prince Harry is also a descendent of the Roches of Cork. We have, therefore, a direct Irish interest in the royal wedding. It is a bit of fun, it is pageantry, it is glam, people love it. It is a real soap opera. People are going to be on tenterhooks to see if daddy turns up or if he will be doing another gig with the paparazzi. It is great fun.