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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: And Mr. Fitzgerald replied “No”.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Yes, I thank Mr. Fitzgerald. He denied the request of families to appoint an independent engineer to review the veracity of the HSE’s building reports. Why was that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: My apologies. I do not wish to cut across Mr. Kane but I have read all of the reports. As he may know, I worked in this area in the past. I appreciate the amount of information that he has provided. In fairness to Mr. Kane, this is more a question for Mr. Fitzgerald because I believe it was he who was in contact with those families. I am asking him why this request to review the building...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Sorry, I will have to disagree with Mr. Kane there. We have talked a great deal today about the size of the building and about room sizes. In some of the building reports we were furnished with, the room sizes are listed differently and various numbers are given. The request from the families was to carry out a review of the veracity of the claims made in the report, That review was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Is that on a single storey?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Why would we review it as a single-storey unit?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I thank Mr. Kane but there is not a statutory requirement. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: No. The HSE has reviewed it in terms of a single storey-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: I just want to be clear on this. Mr. Kane has given us those numbers on the basis of a non-statutory best practice and a single-storey building.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Why is Mr. Kane giving us those numbers on the basis of a single-storey building? That is extraordinary.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Is St. Stephen's Hospital a multistorey building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Is St. Stephen's not a five-level building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: We just had a discussion about putting people into the community which Mr. Kane and I both know mostly means normal houses. The idea that we would always have single-storey buildings is extraordinary. I have never come across it. The benefit to people who have mental health difficulties of a site that is in the centre of a town would be significant. I cannot understand the choice to make...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: But we have it in Saol Nua.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: We have it in Saol Nua.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Before we hand over to Mr. Fitzgerald, unit 8 on floor 2 is in St Stephen's, right? That is an upper floor, just to be clear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: The HSE is going to be moving people to St. Stephen's and probably to that ward.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: Would Mr. Fitzgerald like to answer my final question around the lack of action between February and June on the Mental Health Commission's report? What are the implications of weaponising the report in the way the HSE officials have done?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: It is.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Closure of Owenacurra Centre: Engagement with HSE (14 Dec 2021)
Neasa Hourigan: The HSE has invested almost €3 million into St. Stephen's in ten years, which is in far worse condition.