Áras Attracta outrage about culture and quality of care — time for action

The RTÉ Primetime Bungalow 3 programme revelations are beyond sickening and totally reprehensible to the core of Irish society. 

I have worked in the intellectual disability sector in the UK and Ireland for almost 30 years advocating best practice and campaigning strongly against abusive practices in the care of people with intellectual disabilities.

I also acted as a key prosecution witness in a trial in Guildford Crown Court in the early 1990s which convicted a nurse of assaulting and abusing a person with intellectual disabilities who was living in a hospital for people with intellectual disabilities in Epsom, Surrey.