St Michael's House, the organisation which caters for people with intellectual disabilities, has strongly defended its care of a 60-year-old man who died following his transfer from its care to the Leas Cross nursing home.
St Michael's House this morning described an independent report which has not yet been published as seriously flawed.
It further asserted its author did not talk to staff involved with the case.
Peter McKenna, who had Downs Syndrome and Alzheimer’s, died at Beaumont hospital in 2000, 13 days after being transferred from St Michael's House to Leas Cross Nursing Home in Swords in Co Dublin.
A report on the incident carried out by Martin Hynes, formerly of the Irish Blood Transfusion Service, is expected to be published next month.
St Michael’s House also said that although another client of theirs with a similar condition had been well treated at Leas Cross, the decision to transfer Mr McKenna had ultimately been taken by the High Court on the advice of an independent consultant.
St Michael's House have prepared their response to the Hynes Report and are now calling for an independent investigation into this case.
