Union: Remove the HSE managers

Groups makes radical call as HSE vows to punish care home abuse

Managers of HSE-run facilities for people with intellectual disabilities in the West of Ireland must be removed and replaced by a special reform team as part of a “clean sweep” response to the Árasras Attracta abuse scandal.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association made the shock claim after the HSE director general, Tony O’Brien, said that anybody taking part in abuse like that at Áras Attracta “should be afraid” of wide-reaching plans to uncover their actions — but said covert cameras were unlikely to be allowed.