Judge demands written report on teen’s care

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.

As reported by the Irish Examiner last week, Judge Gerard Griffin said it was amazing how the HSE could claim it had limited funding for crucial services and yet had no problem in paying €800 an hour to legal teams to represent it in court.

Hearing that the HSE had stopped funding services for Tyrone Crockford, aged 19, who has pleaded guilty to three counts of attempted robbery and one count of using a knife. He had been in HSE care since he was 10 and has psychiatric and psychological difficulties due to a brain injury.