House children's disability network in former NowDoc building -Barry

Cllr Brendan Barry requested that Ballinamore Municipal District call on the HSE to provide a building for the Leitrim/West Cavan Children's Disability Network Team.

He said the team and its patients need a building with therapy rooms and office space to maximise the amount of time therapists will have to help the children of the area and therefore not spending time in cars and traffic, travelling to several different buildings.

The Beeches building, which is a house on Summerhill Road in Carrick-on-Shannon, where the services had been facilitated up to now, has recently failed a health and safety audit and is now deemed "unsuitable". 
"When it was there everyone was making the best of what was available and the therapists were coming from the Leitrim Road and up to that building to do therapy sessions with children in the different rooms and travelling between one building and another."

Cllr Barry continued: "There's almost a 50 per cent vacancy rate on the Leitrim/West Cavan Children's Disability Network team so to have therapists now moving to several different buildings in Carrick to try and do therapy sessions for children, it's eating up a lot of their time that isn't there for so many children. Now is the time to find a proper single building where all the team will have office facilities and therapy rooms."

He said a suitable building would be the building in Cortober where NowDoc has vacated as they have moved to the new primary care centre.

Chairperson, Cllr Paddy O'Rouke suggested that Cllr Barry contact the Leitrim representatives of the Regional Health Forum, West. 

All members backed the motion.