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. Michael Fitzgerald:

I might take that. At all times it was understood that Garnish House was not a place where people would be resident for the long term because it was always a leased building. It was done at short notice at the time because we were preparing fast for what we did not know with regards to Covid. That is a hugely important issue with regard to the decision to move from Millfield House to Garnish House, which is at issue. Importantly, though Garnish House is not an ideal location from a residential perspective in terms of the consequences around the building itself, as I outlined earlier, it afforded more space and more single spaces, especially at that first stage and at the early stages of Covid when we did not fully understand what the implications might be for residential settings in mental health, such as they were.

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