HSE’s legal costs ‘would fund unit in Ireland for girl’
The costs to date of various proceedings in Ireland and England concerning the woman are estimated to exceed well over €1m. It also costs £400,000 a year to keep her in St Andrew’s unit in Northampton, where other Irish children and adults are regularly detained.
The woman has been detained for 19 months in St Andrew’s. Before that, from the age of 14, she was treated in various units in Ireland for about two years.
