No alternative but to shut Co Cork mental health facility - HSE

The Owenacurra Centre, which is situated at the centre of Midleton, currently hosts 19 patients, some of whom have lived there for many years

Cork TD Sean Sherlock said that the timeframe for closing Owenacurra “is very premature”.

The HSE says that it has had no alternative but to shut a Co Cork mental health facility as the only way to make use of the site is if the existing buildings were demolished.

Representatives from the executive’s mental health services division are set to tell an Oireachtas committee tomorrow that “any level of refurbishment” could not bring the Owenacurra Centre in Midleton “to the standards required”.