Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

We have acknowledged publicly that there are a number of centres, particularly in Cork, that fall short of the requirements from the point of view of the regulator. We are working on two fronts in respect of that. First is to replace where we can some of those units and, second, in the interim to do works that would maintain them and keep them at some level of ongoing delivery of service. Those are two important pieces of it.

In the context of the Owenacurra Centre, taking account of the information that became available to us and considering what we could or could not do in terms of the future, I took the decision that we would cease the service in Owenacurra in its current state. In fairness if the Deputy takes a view of Owenacurra, there were day services provided at the centre of it, there were offices for staff and a variety of therapeutic services ongoing inside in the middle of where people lived. When we hear of the small rooms without an en suite, when we know and see the type of building that it is-----