Marc MacSharry (Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Will the Leader raise with the Minister for Health a case which concluded in the courts today of a deceased woman, Dhara Kivlehan, from north Leitrim? The HSE consistently refused to hold an inquest into the death of that woman. Her husband, Michael, his parents and his son have been denied the right to an inquest. People may be aware that this case was a very similar to that of Savita Halappanavar. Having become very ill a number of days after giving birth, Ms Kivlehan was transferred to the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast where she later died.

There is an inquest in Belfast, as it happens, but it is fair to say the HSE has obstructed the process by prohibiting or refusing to allow people to travel to participate in that inquest. Even as we heard, the surviving husband, Michael Kevin Kivlehan, who is a personal friend of mine, although I have not raised the case before given the matter was before the courts, but now that it is-----