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 Pat BuckleyPat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

On that coercion, I have been told by family members of residential patients who were taken from the Owenacurra Centre and brought to other places to have a look without any of the family members being informed of that until it happened. Mr. Fitzgerald can change the word from "coercion", but it is still wrong. If it is an issue, we can always go with the family members down the protected disclosure route. We are not here to make accusations. We are here to ask whether the HSE officials are aware of this and to state that it is neither the proper procedure nor the rights-based approach to the matter. That is why I used the word. Also, the family members used that word.

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