Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 13 July 2023
Committee on Public Petitions
Closure of Vital Health Services: Discussion
Mr. Mattie Quinn:
Senator Craughwell asked what we would do with the €1 million. There are six different versions of how this was to be financed. Deputy Canney got two letters on one day from the same person. One said it would be funded in total, while the other said it would be partially funded. This can be summed up by a comment made by Deputy Connolly, who is dealing with an issue in Carraroe to do with the day centre. She said she was getting an unrealistic narrative, which is a nice way of saying something else. One person in the HSE made a statement that we have things in Loughrea that are not in other day centres, so why should we have them?