Owenacurra to be raised at Oireachtas committee on mental health

When asked about the Owenacurra facility in Midleton, John Farrelly said the Commission had not been asked to speak to the Oireachtas Committee about an individual centre. File picture

The Mental Health Commission is calling for the introduction of three pieces of legislation to ensure Ireland is compliant with the UN Convention on the rights of people with disability.

Chief executive John Farrelly, who will address an Oireachtas committee on Thursday, said he wants the rights of people with mental health illness all over the country to be vindicated. The lack of services for those people was something we should be ashamed about as a State, he said.