Remedial works continue to fix heating at Ireland's state-of-the-art €200m mental hospital

The Central Mental Hospital in Portrane has a natural gas combined heat and power plant, a central energy centre with a 'natural gas-fired medium temperature heating system', as well as a heat recovery system. File picture: Colin Keegan, Collins Dublin

Remedial works are being carried out at Ireland’s state-of-the-art forensic mental health facility to fix heating problems which affected the hospital for more than a week.

The Central Mental Hospital accommodates people with severe psychiatric conditions who have offended. They are mainly sent by the courts as a result of either being ruled unfit to plead or after a judgement of not guilty by reason of insanity.