Pearse Doherty (Donegal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I also wish to raise this issue and we have raised it on numerous occasions. Our colleagues have attended public meetings there. Deputy Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin raised this issue directly with Tánaiste as far back as the beginning of July last year. Commitments were given by the current Taoiseach and by the former Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. The commitment was very clear, namely, that those patients who consider the Rosalie unit to be their home would be able to live out the rest of their days there. As of today, this Government has broken that commitment. The Taoiseach has broken his word, the former Minister of State has broken her word, and the Government, which the Tánaiste serves in, has broken its commitment to those individuals. Will the Tánaiste advise Breda and the other 11 patients why those in government have broken their word to those patients who were told they would be allowed to live out their days in that unit now that a decision has been taken to put them out of their home and to ask them to go to different counties, leaving their home county of Roscommon?

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