More than €4,800 a week to care for two disturbed boys

THE cash-strapped Health Service Executive is spending more than €4,800 weekly to operate a special care unit for two disturbed boys in Limerick, it emerged yesterday.

A total of 20 highly paid care workers are employed at the unit, Coovagh House. It was opened last April, having been built in 2001 at a cost of €5 million.

Coovagh House is located in the grounds of St Joseph’s psychiatric hospital.