Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 September 2022

Committee on Public Petitions

Business of Joint Committee
Consideration of Public Petition on Saving the Services of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Martin BrowneMartin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The HSE has taken up the very foundations of community care, that is, of people being looked after in their own community. They are being spread out among facilities that are in some cases questionable. It is not me but the Mental Health Commission that states they are not up to the standard of the Owenacurra Centre. There is no comparison between taking people out of single rooms and putting them into double rooms in addition to making no allowances for public transport for families who wish to visit.

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