Fianna Fáil's Health spokesperson Stephen Donnelly has said that the Minister for Health needs to ensure that an investigation into the case of a woman whose pregnancy was terminated because of a misleading test result is completely independent and is conducted by experts.

The State's chief medical officer told the fourth day of the NMH's case challenging an inquiry arising out of the death of Malak Thawley that the raising of governance concerns at the hospital did not arise out of anger or annoyance at the taking of the legal action.

A man whose wife died during surgery for an ectopic pregnancy has lost his bid to be joined as a notice party to proceedings by the National Maternity Hospital (NMH) aimed at halting a further inquiry over the death.

Health Minister Simon Harris has been urged to "publish all the deals and all the side deals" with a religious order involved in the mother and baby homes scandal over the building of the new national maternity hospital.