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

Mr. Paul Reid:

On the why, I will say it again that when the commission made its findings known, the HSE and Mr. Fitzgerald at a local level carried out assessments. Our assessments, including of safety risk, the asbestos, the mechanical and electrical equipment, the investment that was needed there but also, more importantly, of the conditions and the space in which people were living and the fact that day care services were being mixed with services for people in residential care, concluded the centre was highly inappropriate. The right decision was made, in line with the strategy and policy of moving people into residential care.

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