Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I will read the first couple of words again - "ro successfully live in their chosen community". The HSE is not giving them that option at Owenacurra Centre - and not just at Owenacurra Centre, because we have been involved with St. Brigid's Hospital, in Carrick-on-Suir. How many other centres like Owenacurra Centre and St. Brigid's Hospital has the HSE earmarked to close down? It just seems that bit by bit they are being closed down. I remember being at a meeting with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and she threw out a figure of 350 more beds. Will we see ten at Owenacurra Centre, 12 at St. Brigid's Hospital and so on in other places? That directly goes away from what the HSE states in its own policy document, "To successfully live in their chosen community".