Minister for Health James Reilly, the Health Service Executive and Our Lady’s Children’s Hospital, Crumlin have welcomed a HIQA report into the failutres which prevented a teenage transplant patient from travelling for surgery.

A Health Information and Quality Authority (HIQA) inquiry into the failed transportation of Leitrim girl Meadhbh McGivern for transplant surgery last month has found that an "inherently risky" system that relied on individuals led to the failure.