Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

St. Mary of the Angels should have been the last place to be de-congregated, given its tranquility, the beauty of its location between Carrauntoohil and Beaufort and the fact that it is in the heart of the county, making it accessible to everyone equally. If there is a problem with the two wards then the Department should, as locals have suggested, build more bungalows on the land. The State got the land for nothing, from a retired farmer and his daughter. Is this what he wanted done with it? Did he want the centre to be closed down and the land to be sold off to pay for more HSE officials? I ask the Minister of State to visit the centre himself. What is going on there is wrong and what has been proposed is wrong. The Minister of State will only understand what we are talking about when he sees the centre for himself. If he does not do that, he will hear plenty more about this. It will not be closed very easily.

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