HSE head set to tell Oireachtas committee east Cork mental health centre is 'not fit for purpose'

The Owenacurra Centre in Midleton.

The head of the HSE is set to tell an Oireachtas committee on Thursday that the Owenacurra community mental health centre in east Cork is “regrettably no longer fit for purpose”.

Paul Reid will tell the Public Accounts Committee that it is “not viable” to bring the centre in Midleton, which was slated for closure last October amid a local outcry, “to bring it to a standard that will meet the needs of our service users and our staff.”