HSE West hits back at Deputy Chambers' water claims

THE HSE West has hit back at claims by Mayo TD Lisa Chambers that patients at the Sacred Heart Home in Castlebar were not being provided with adequate drinking water supplies during the current boil water notice.

In a statement, the authority said: 'The environmental health officer was on site twice this week at Sacred Heart Hospital in Castlebar.

'The staff there have been boiling and cooling water and supplying the wards, patients and staff.

'We are are satisfied with the arrangements in place.'