7 Apr 2022, 15:05
The Joint Committee on Health has written to Minister Butler to express dissatisfaction and concern that the Owenacurra Centre is to be closed.
The Committee has called on the Minister to reverse this decision as a matter of urgency as it is in contravention of the Sharing the Vision policy which seeks to locate mental health services within communities.
Furthermore, the Committee believes that the evidence presented by the HSE to justify the closure has been unconvincing and raises concerns about the ad-hoc nature of the decision-making process relating to capital infrastructure of mental health facilities.
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