Teenagers’ secure unit staff still not trained for facility

THE Government’s secure unit for young teenagers, costing €9m, will lie idle when it is finally completed at the end of this month, it was claimed yesterday.

Essential training for staff to run St Patrick’s Special School has not even begun, seven months after the Government announced it was building the centre.

And there are growing concerns that Justice Minister Michael McDowell doesn’t even have the money necessary to operate the centre, once it is built.