Ms Susan Mullins:

I will reiterate that. I had touched on my own personal experience earlier as a child. I have had my paternal grandparents and my dad die there. It is exactly as Mr. Torpey said in that people knew they would be in a safe place and would not be out on a trolley. They knew they would be well looked after by people they know in their local community and that their families were close by and could come to see them. People are working and it can be very difficult for them to try to make these journeys.

St. Brigid's is universally loved in the area. It is very rare to get a place about which everybody says positive things, but that is St. Brigid's. Everybody has positive memories and experiences of being there. I have never come across anybody who has had a bad experience. Many friends of mine have mothers and fathers who have been in palliative care and died there. All of them have had very positive experiences.