HSE West officials have again told a judge they do not have the funding to provide specialist residential treatment to a brain-damaged teenager who had been terrorising women in Galway City.

A circuit court judge has given the HSE two weeks to compile a written report of its proposals to provide a regime of continuing care for a brain-damaged teenager.

A circuit court judge has said it is amazing how the HSE claims to have funding shortages and yet has no problem in paying €800 an hour to legal teams to represent it in court.