Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

Okay. This is not a criticism. I understand there are mitigating circumstances in the health services and especially mental health ones. There are reasons this is happening but why was it not envisaged that this could happen again? It happened four or five years ago and the same situation has arisen again. Surely with facilities such as Linn Dara, which is a vital service, this is down to planning and seeing what could happen in the future. Surely this could have been averted in some way? Notwithstanding the mitigating circumstances around the retention and recruitment of staff, why has it happened again?