Health Minister James Reilly is to be asked in the Dáil why, after seven years, the HSE has yet to publish a report into the death of a 75-year-old woman at a hospital in Co Cork.

When the investigation into the death of Hannah Comber at a north Cork hospital got under way seven years ago, the HSE promised to publish its findings “in the interests of her family, public confidence in their services, as well as openness and transparency”.

WHY has it taken seven years to explain the death of an elderly woman choked to death by a restraint cord when sleeping in a hospital chair in the same room as a care assistant?