Decongregated disability care case
A procedural dispute arose over whether Deputy Danny Healy-Rae’s case was in order, but he raised a serious alleged medication error in a decongregated disability setting. The Chair allowed Deputy Michael Healy-Rae to speak on the same issue, and the Minister later said he would look into the individual case if details were provided.
I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle very much.
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It is an ambition of this partnership Government to empower people with disabilities to live independent lives, in other words to taking them out of congregated settings and placing them in decongregated settings. However, no assessment is being done of how this is working. In one instance, a person was given 28 anti-psychotic doses in the month of May when that person should only have gotten four. This person is blind as a result. I want this case investigated. I want the rest of the decongregated settings investigated and assessed to see how they are operating but in this particular case, this man is blind-----
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-----as a result of these anti-psychotic doses that he got in the month of May last year.
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This person was removed from St. Mary of the Angels in Killorglin.