Linn Dara Carers Warned By

E RE F E H LT OCAL WEST EDITION 20th July 2018 Phone: 087 252 4064 • Email: [email protected] • www.localnews.ie Delivering to: Ballyfermot Lucann Leixlip eCelbriwdge Clondaslkin Palmerstown Kilcock Maynooth l l l l l l l Linn Dara carers NO MORE TV BILLS EVER SPECIAL OFFER warned by HSE €250 IRISH COMPANY fully install ed EXCELLENT SPECIAL TO AFTERCARE SERVICE LOCAL NEWS by Paul Kelly Tel: 083 3133133 STAFF AT Cherry Orchard’s shuttered Linn Dara were berated, cross-examined and sworn to silence by their managers as news of the shock closure of the mental health centre leaked out. Linn Dara was closed late in the week of Monday, July 2. And Local News has learned that, astoundingly, staff were forced to make fu - ture appointments for clients to come to Linn Dara — knowing that the centre would be closed when they got there. Meanwhile, qualified nurse and mental health champion Senator Máire Devine, talking exclusively Pictured enjoying the Longitude Festival recently, which was blessed with some of the best weather of to Local News , expressed this balmy summer. pic by ©INPHO/Ryan Byrne/Red Bull Content fury at the decision. House Painting “The HSE won’t get away internal & USELESS pletely useless.” “If you have money, you with this,” she vowed. Bríd Smith, TD (PBP, can get private care. If you external “They talk about the cen - don't, you wait or die.” And she also attacked Dublin South Central) has tre being ‘suspended’ until Meanwhile, Linn Dara Junior Health Minister Jim raised Linn Dara in the special rates for September, then October. staff await their fate. Daly, TD (FG, Cork SW) for Dáil: senior Citizens They think they’re going to “They are terrified,” the “Our government's swan back in the autumn, giving a HSE-prepared source told Local News . all areas covered health policies cost lives. and everyone will have for - statement in response to “They are told they’ll be That's the bottom line,” gotten about this. They’re her questions. re-deployed to Clondalkin, wrong!” “His answers were com - she fumed. continued on page 2 2 | THE LOCAL NEWS prisingly low pa - particularly the lat - all we get are toilet tient traffic ter. paper replies like Criminal • the Money Puz - While the shut- this. It is disgust - zle: a broader FÁS- down appears sud - ing. Several clini - Legal style scandal den, there are clues cians told us the surrounding Child that it was system is so broken Mental Health. planned: and rotten they Aid For example: cannot change it. from mid–2017 on - Domestic violence refers Dónall Johnston LOW TRAFFIC (Minister Byrne, to the use of physical, wards, staff at Linn in her reply, said emotional force or threat of physical force, and DEVINE: “They’re not Up to closure, Dara were ordered that to claim that includes sexual violence. going to get away to spend their Linn Dara saw just money was not Domestic violence legislation protects with this” mornings “helping a dozen or so inpa - being poured into spouses/civil partners and children and offers but they think out” at a facility in tients per week — mental health legal remedies in case of Domestic violence. It they might be Clondalkin where, also gives An Garda Síochána powers to arrest and this at a time services was sanctioned if when the adoles - they were told, where there is a breach of a court order. “wrong”.) The Court can make the following orders. they’re suspected cent care offered nurses and others Why did the gov - Safety order: A safety order prohibits the as the one who there was said to be were “under pres - ernment close the person against whom the order is made from leaked the news.” in great demand. sure”. SMITH AND FRIENDS: “Wait or die” attractive, modern engaging in violence or threats of violence. It Meanwhile, the It was opened in Low patient does not oblige that person to leave the family Committee on Fu - throughput, there - claimed: Junior far yielded no use - Linn Dara facility? home. It prohibits them from watching or 2015, spearheading ture of Mental fore, may have Minister Catherine being in the vicinity of where the person apply - a new emphasis on ful answers. Health Care sent Byrne, TD (FG, ing for the order and dependent children lives. community-based been a part of a Indeed few top - FEAR if the person against whom the order is made an urgent email mental health — all management plan. Dublin South Cen - ics have engen - does not normally live in the family home, about Linn Dara to part of Ireland’s CHO 7 will now tral) put the sum of dered more fury in Somewhere, in Barring order: A barring order requires the David Walsh, CEO long goodbye to “combine” Linn €910 million an - Dáil debates, as in the larger mystery person against who it is make, to leave the of Community scandalously Dara with other nually — for men - this exchange be - of the elusive — if family home and stay away from person apply - Health Organisa - squalid institutions centres. This saves tal health generally tween Deputy Mc - not vanishing — ing for the order and/or dependent children tion 7 (“CHO 7”, — on the Dáil and can include terms prohibiting the person such as Portrane money but de - Grath and Minister €910 million men - against whom it is made from using or threat - which deals with and Grangegor - stroys the commu - record last year. Byrne: tal health budget, a much of Leinster), ening to use violence. man. nity-based ethos But no one seems It is unbelievable future Dáil Public and to Kevin Brady, to know where the Once a Domestic Violence summons or Civil It originally in - that Linn Dara was that the Minister of Accounts Commit - Bill has been issued by the person applying for Area Manager, built to exemplify. children’s portion cluded 11 beds but State [Byrne] tee may find an - the order or orders, they can apply for a pro - Mental Health for of that money is these were phased should come to the swers. tection order or an interim barring order while CHO 7. going. waiting for the application to be heard in court. out almost as soon MONEY PUZZLE House and read out Indeed, fear The Committee Hardly any of it such rubbish Protection order: This is a temporary order. as they were intro - about those an - asked both men to can be accounted replies…Three out It gives protection to the person applying for duced. Young, vul - Mental health swers may explain the Domestic Violence order or orders until the appear before nerable people, spending, particu - on the basis of spe - of every four new those robotic Dáil court decides on a application for safety or bar - them on July 11. parents were told, larly on children, cific schemes or recruits to the HSE replies; and those ring order. It will only last until the case is heard Both Walsh and could more hu - may be the great centres dealing is a manager. It is and a decision made. It does not oblige the Brady accepted one with child and despicable, out of defensive and at person against whom it is made to leave the manely be treated looming crisis for day, then cancelled as Linn Dara day- the government. adolescent mental control and times menacing family home. moves by mental Interim barring order: This is a temporary the next. patients. Cabinet minis - health. morally, and in barring order. It is intended to last until the Why the closure? However that ters, like the vari - Endless detailed every other way, health managers. barring order application is heard in court and Why the sudden - very idea is now ous CHOs, have questions on the wrong. Our children’s a decision made. After an interim barring order ness, the secrecy under threat as the been quizzed matter — from To deny these mental health — is made a full court hearing must take place and the local and HSE plans to “farm about their actual Senator Devine, young adolescent and even their lives within eight working days of the granting of an national HSE para - out” regular atten - spending on child Deputy Bríd Smith girls and boys these — may be exposed interim barring order. The Court must be of the noia? opinion that there are reasonable grounds for dees to other cen - and adolescent and Deputy Mattie services and have to needless dam - believing there is an immediate risk of signifi - Local News found tres in, for mental health. McGrath (Ind, Tip - them languishing age in the time it cant harm to the applicant or any dependent two clues: example, Tallaght Vast budgets are perary), amongst in hospitals is takes to sort this person if the order is not made immediately. • Linn Dara’s sur - and Clondalkin, being cited and others — have so wrong…However, problem out. Person who can apply for these orders, sub - ject to certain restrictions and conditions that must be met. Spouses and former spouses; Civil partners; Co-habiting couples; Parents; Parents of children in common; Person living together, can apply for protec - tion against someone over 18 who they are liv - ing with if their relationship is not primarily based on a contract. Children may apply for or - ders but an adult or health board must make the application on their behalf; The HSE may also apply on behalf of a person or that per - son's dependent children. LINN DARA: opened 2015, closed last week Each category of persons, who can apply for these orders, has certain conditions that must be met, depending on the type of order or or - ders being sought.

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