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Nursing home should get examiner not liquidator, court told
Summary
In September 2020 the High Court was asked to appoint an examiner to St Mary's Centre, a south Dublin nursing home and disability care centre run by the Sisters of Charity. The centre, located beside St Vincent's Hospital on Merrion Road, had been placed under provisional liquidators in July after a petition to wind it up on the grounds of insolvency and an inability to meet €950,000 in redundancy payments. Residents, some staff and former staff argued that a brief examinership could determine whether the facility could be saved, citing regulatory difficulties, HSE funding concerns and Hiqa modernization requirements as reasons for insolvency. Lawyers for the residents urged the court to allow an examiner, Mr Antony Wheldon, to devise a survival scheme and seek external investment. The company's counsel, Rossa Fanning, opposed the application, calling it doomed to failure and lacking financial analysis, and urged the court to confirm the liquidators.
Who, what, where, when and why
What: Report matter: Nursing home should get examiner not liquidator, court told. Procedural stage: hearing_or_decision
When:
- 2020-09-24 Publication
Places mentioned
- The High Court
- St Vincent's Hospital
- Merrion Road
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