MINISTER for Health Mary Harney will be pressed in the Dáil on the delay in completing an investigation into the death of a 75-year-old woman at a Co Cork hospital on June 22, 2006.

THE largest psychiatric hospital in Munster is being forced to replace its entire water treatment system after traces of E-coli were found in the supply.

THE Health Service Executive is to employ additional staff to deal with assessment and treatment for people in Cork and Kerry suffering from autism and cystic fibrosis and orthodontic problems.

A LIFESAVING machine which cost €1 million has been lying idle in a Cork hospital for the last three months, because nobody has been appointed to operate it.