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

I thank the Regional Group. Obviously, I support their motion.

I want to raise something else with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. It is urgent and needs to be addressed. I want to talk about a girl who has serious intellectual and physical disabilities. She has been in and out of St. Mary of the Angels for many years as a respite patient but since her father died over a year ago, she has been full-time in St. Mary of the Angels because her mother cannot care for her. This big, strong girl is nearly 40 years of age but it takes an awful lot of work to handle and mind her. Now the HSE and St. John of God Hospital are saying that this girl must leave this residential care and the only other place she has to go-----

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