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

I have got permission. The only place this girl has to go now or where she is told she has to go is up to County Meath. There is no residential bed in Kerry for this girl. The HSE is saying that if her mother does not agree to this, it will take the mother to the High Court and make the girl a ward of court. This is very serious. Is this what the HSE is about? They say they are doing it for this decongregation model. They want to move her to County Meath. That is not acceptable. I am appealing to the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, in the strongest terms not to let the HSE take this mother to court to make her daughter a ward of court.

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