Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 October 2023

Committee on Public Petitions

Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Neasa HouriganNeasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

If Ms O’Donovan does not my mind me saying, that does not sound like an absolute right. Let us say a person was moved out of Owenacurra last year and now that person is in north Cork. We will come to the timing of the new building, which, very ambitiously, will be in maybe 2026 or 2027. That person is now in north Cork for at least four to five years. Let us say there is somebody else, as we have just talked about, in that cohort who has not been able to go into Owenacurra since 2021. That person will have been living in east Cork for five years. If it is that kind of a mediated nuanced right, then I think most people would say the person who has been living in east Cork for the past five years will get the place over the person who was moved out of Owenacurra. Does the person who was moved out of Owenacurra have the right to move back?

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