Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Ms Dervila Eyres:

I will make just one comment, if that is okay. If the Deputy wants information on those individual cases, I ask her to please come to me on it. I will raise one point in relation to patients who arrive at the unit in Crosslanes and have been seen but not admitted and who may be intoxicated with drink or substances. That is a stand-alone unit and it does not do medical detox. Unfortunately, when people turn up who are in an intoxicated state, they have to go to a medical facility for detox before they can be admitted to our unit. That is just a fact in terms of the process provided.

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