Creche owner fined for barring inspectors
Hazel O’Mahony, who runs Tiny Tots creche , Killeagh, Co Cork also had seven charges of breaching the Child Care (Pre-School) Regulations 2006 dismissed.
At Midleton District Court, Judge John O’Neill heard that HSE inspectors, Lorraine Potter and Eleanor Buckley, went to the creche on May 21 for an annual inspection. Ms O’Mahony claimed when they arrived they told her it was “a pre-court inspection” as she was due to appear three weeks later to answer eight breaches of the 2006 regulations, which the inspectors alleged they had noticed on a visit on Nov 22, 2012.
