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)

Dr. Sinead O'Brien:

I will take that. We are committed to developing the services in Midleton. The Chairman is absolutely correct that what we are looking for are different levels of support to allow different people to be able to live to their best quality of life. Therefore, we are looking at allowing people to get more support when they need it and to get multidisciplinary rehabilitation. Then people can move to other levels of support and, indeed, on to wherever they choose to live and to independence if that is suitable at the time. In essence, we are aiming to provide a wide variety of services that will allow a much bigger number of people to benefit from this service and then to move on and, ultimately, to have the best quality of life they can have.