Limerick election candidates to be briefed on €2.9m respite centre for disabled children lying idle

General election candidates will be briefed on a major health scandal in Limerick tomorrow involving a €2.9m respite centre for disabled children which has lain idle since being completed 15 months ago because the HSE does not have the money to support its running costs.

As the state-of-the-art St Gabriel's Children's Respite House, located in Mungret on the outskirts of the city, remains closed children with significant physical disabilities in need of overnight respite care must be driven to Dublin to avail of an overnight break which parents say is untenable and unfair.