Cork court allows man go to Romanian embassy before flight home for medical care

The HSE, prison service, and gardaí all indicated that they would have no legal authority to accompany someone who was released from prison to a plane

The case has been up before Cork District Court several times since last month.

A Romanian national with psychiatric difficulties who wants to get medical care in his home country has been in custody in Cork having “fallen between so many agencies” but today there was a breakthrough in the case.

The gardaí, prison service, and HSE said that they did not have the legal authority to escort the 55-year-old to a flight to Bucharest or indeed accompany him on such a flight. The DPP indicated last month that they were going to withdraw the assault and public order charges against him, on receipt of a psychiatric report from the prison. Since then the issue has been about how he would be escorted to Dublin Airport.