Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

We will keep working with each of the people and their families. That process has brought us to a situation where ten of the residents have moved from the Owenacurra Centre at this point. I was asked earlier how many of the ten were in single rooms in whatever residential centre they were. Nine out of the ten are in single rooms at this point in time. I am confident we can keep working with the families. It is a balance of the people's will and preference as well as their clinical needs and working through the remaining number of people with regard to that.