Care staff told to flush loos after ‘toxic’ odours reported

Staff have been told to “flush the toilets” in a new state-of-the-art residential mental health facility after complaining of strong smells of sewage type gases.

The “toxic” odours were detected shortly before Christmas in the €13m Deer Lodge residential facility on the northern edge of Killarney, a nurses union has told HSE management.

Deer Lodge opened during the summer but has already been the subject of remedial works because higher than acceptable levels of radon gas were detected there.