Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion
Mr. Mattie Quinn:
On what is driving this, there seems to be total intransigence. The HSE is not listening, and if more than 2,500 people signed something, and it is in writing, not online, that means something. The opposition to this is tremendous. The older people who are users of the service and their families are totally opposed to it. The community, as evidenced by all those signatures, and many of the retired staff, including my wife, Anna, who worked in the area we looked at, think it is totally wrong. It is a dark, dull, dreary building. A number of our public representatives, as Anna mentioned earlier, who have been so supportive to us, support the restoration of the day centre as it was. We do not know what is driving it. We cannot dig down. There is something but we cannot find out what it is.
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