A 5-year-old boy who has been left brain-damaged and permanently disabled after a failure to diagnose an infection when he was a baby has settled his action against Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin with an interim payout of €6.7m.

A 5-year old boy who has been left brain-damaged and permanently disabled has sued Temple Street Children’s Hospital, Dublin, over a failure to diagnose an infection when he was 11 months old.

AVERAGE treatment waiting times for public patients have fallen to their shortest level ever at less than three months.