Ms Martina Queally:

I am chief officer in Dublin south east and Wicklow. At one of my regular management meetings with St. John of God's, its officials said they were making some changes to the boarding school element of St. Augustine’s, a small residential component of the school’s service, and that they would have no impact on children attending the school as they were going to phase in the change as the children completed their secondary education. It subsequently transpired that this was not the complete story and that the organisation was making more substantial changes.

We called the management team back in and told it that that had not been approved by us or the Department of Health. Those changes were stopped.