HSE manager has 'empathy' for mother of intellectually disabled adult, but action 'not sensible'

The head of HSE South-West says he has "empathy” for the situation of a Cork mother who dropped her intellectually disabled child to an emergency department, but described her actions as “not sensible”.

The mother in question dropped her adult daughter, who is classified by the HSE as having a moderate intellectual disability, to an emergency department recently, as her child’s aggressive behaviour had become impossible to manage at home.

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