HSE urged to shelve plans for mental health facility in Co Cork

Councillors heard that St Stephen’s Hospital at Sarsfield’s Court in Glanmire will be the site of Cork's new elective hospital, an unsuitably medicalised setting for the mental health unit

Councillors backed Liam Quaide’s proposal to urge the HSE not to proceed with the unit at St Stephen’s Hospital, Sarsfield’s Court, in  Glanmire, Co Cork. Picture: Dan Linehan

The HSE is being urged to shelve plans to build a 50-bed mental health facility at “an isolated” Co Cork hospital.

Cork County Council has written to the health authority after councillors unanimously backed a call from independent councillor Liam Quaide — a senior clinical psychologist — who is opposed to HSE plans to build the unit at St Stephen’s Hospital at Sarsfield’s Court, Glanmire.