Denis Naughten (Roscommon-Galway, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Page 69 of A Programme for a Partnership Government states:

We will develop services and specialties to support people at different stages in life. With a growing older population, it is necessary to build capacity in the psychiatry of later life.

One such facility is Rosalie care home in Castlerea, County Roscommon. The Minister for Health, the Department of Health and the HSE have stated this facility will continue to form part of the health service into the future. However, this morning the HSE has taken a unilateral decision to move 12 mostly older people with Alzheimer's disease and dementia without any decision being made on the future use of the facility. It is disgraceful treatment of residents and contradicts the programme for Government and stated HSE policy on the future of the facility. I want the Government to intervene directly in the issue as a matter of urgency.

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