The Health Minister has asked his department to engage with the HSE to establish how four consultant obstetricians at a Kilkenny hospital have “decided unanimously” that their unit is not a suitable location for abortion services.

The Health Minister James Reilly has announced that the National Maternity Hospital on Holles Street in central Dublin, will be moved to the site of the Elm Park development beside St Vincent's Hospital in Dublin 4.

A senior midwife has said she is 100% certain she told a doctor about the elevated pulse rate of Savita Halapannavar, who died after she suffered a miscarriage at University Hospital Galway.