Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 December 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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Absolutely. I go back to my very first point, which is that some of these matters were raised in numerous reports over the years. These were either not looked into or taken seriously enough, or else there was not the will from the HSE at that stage to close Owenacurra. There is definitely a need to have a retrospective and independent inquiry to find out what the failures from the HSE were as they related to Owenacurra. That is so the likes of this does not happen again.