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It is important that that expertise, specifically from one of the two registered practitioners, is in the Bill. We had a bit of an exchange in last week’s debate about just how expert they need to be. However, I will put on the record my belief that a general psychiatrist—who has not had that specific training and does not have a living, working expertise that involves knowing and understanding people with either autism or a learning disability—will almost certainly make the wrong decisions and, even worse, as I have personally witnessed, the wrong diagnosis.