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Health Minister reacts to abuse revealed in Mayo care home

The Minister with responsibility for Disability – Kathleen Lynch – says sending undercover investigators into care homes must now be considered.

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It follows last night's Primetime programme on RTE which showed footage of residents with intellectual disabilities being abused at Aras Attracta in Swinford, County Mayo.

The undercover investigation found that three women in the centre were slapped, kicked, threatened, denied access to a toilet, and force fed.

Professor Owen Barr – Head of Nursing at the University of Ulster – told the programme-makers the treatment was abusive in the extreme

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