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SIPTU CONSULTS MEMBERS OVER CLOSURE OF BALLINASLOE DISABILITY FACILITY
Date Published: 01-Oct-2012
SIPTU is to consult its members following the closure of Hawthorn House, in Ballinasloe last Friday.
The East Galway intellectual disability service facilitates intellectually disabled people, who are now to be moved to other such community homes in the area.
SIPTU has raised concerns that the move will create overcrowded environments elsewhere in the Ballinasloe service area and will also remove privacy for users.
The matter had been referred to a joint review group involving the HSE.
Paul Hardy of SIPTU says the group is now consulting its members on concerns over inadequate facilities.