ANDREW McGinley has said he needs to understand why his children were killed as he filed a medical negligence case against the HSE.
On January 24, it will be two years since his three children, Conor, 9, six-year-old Darragh and Carla, 3, were found dead at their house in Newcastle, Dublin.
Their mother, Deirdre Morley, was found not guilty of their murders by reason of insanity.
Since their deaths, Andrew has been campaigning for family inclusion in cases of mental health treatments.
And after two years of asking why he was not informed of Deirdre’s mental state at the time of their deaths, he has filed a medical negligence case against the HSE, St Pat’s Hospital and Deirdre’s psychiatrist.
He told the Irish Sun: “I feel I know how the children died. I know every graphic detail of how they died. But deep down I didn’t want to know that. And yet I am no closer to understanding why.
“For two years I have spoken about mental health, I have tried to see changes being made and tried to understand and I am no closer.
“All I really want to be doing is talking about the kids’ legacies, the account I have for Conor’s Clips, the charity work with As Darragh Did and Carla’s Snowmen. I want to just be advocating for change in mental health treatments and the Mental Health Act.”
Most read in The Irish Sun
Andrew was told the HSE have completed a preliminary review into the deaths and a new review is starting.
He continued: “For me a review being done is a good starting point.
“For me, it is not a blame game. I just need to understand why and for them to also understand so nobody else has to go through what I’ve been through.
“Our case is similar to Una Butler and what she went through when she lost her beautiful daughters, Zoe and Ella.
“She campaigned for change and she wasn’t listened to.
“So now I’ve added my voice to Una’s. Hopefully somebody will listen and we won’t have another voice added.
“Some of your readers could find themselves in a similar situation if the Mental Health Act isn’t changed to include families in treatment.”
‘FAMILY INCLUSION MAKES SO MUCH SENSE’
Andrew told the Irish Sun that his only source of information was Deirdre.
He said: “I know of all people she didn’t want me to know how bad she was.
“I understand she wasn’t well. I just think the best place would have been to liaise with me and keep me informed.
“They met her for treatment for an hour a week. The remainder of the time she was back in the home with somebody who wants them to get better and help them with what they are going through.”
He added: “For me,family inclusion makes so much sense. I know in some circumstances it is not appropriate but in ours it would have been.
Deirdre has also launched a medical negligence case against the same three.
A HSE spokeswoman said: “An independent review is ongoing. The HSE cannot comment on individual cases when to do so might reveal information resulting in a breach of the ethical requirement on us to observe our duty of confidentiality.”