Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 September 2022
Committee on Public Petitions
Business of Joint Committee
Consideration of Public Petition on Saving the Services of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork: Discussion (Resumed)
Martin Browne (Tipperary, Sinn Fein)
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The HSE has taken up the very foundations of community care, that is, of people being looked after in their own community. They are being spread out among facilities that are in some cases questionable. It is not me but the Mental Health Commission that states they are not up to the standard of the Owenacurra Centre. There is no comparison between taking people out of single rooms and putting them into double rooms in addition to making no allowances for public transport for families who wish to visit.