Mother wants probe into mental health files left in vacant house

There have been calls for an independent inquiry into how the mental health files of children and adolescents came to be found in a vacant house last week.

The mother of one of the teenagers whose confidential medical notes were discovered in a house at Enniscorthy, Co Wexford, told the Irish Examiner she had been informed that the HSE was due to hold a meeting yesterday to discuss furthering its own internal investigation.

The probe was officially launched last Friday after the discovery of the files was reported to gardaí and the files later handed over to the HSE.