No State-run agency can provide figures for how many children are on waiting lists for counselling, or how long these children have to wait to be seen.

The Health Service Executive is reportedly set to review the case of Cork man Michael Greaney - who died alongside his wife on Sunday - less than two months after leaving the Central Mental Hospital in Dublin.

The Health Service Executive has confirmed that an investigation is underway following the death of a baby.

School friends and teachers of Thomas and Paddy O’Driscoll at Banogue National School were trying to come to terms with news of the tragedy yesterday.

A delay in carrying out a caesarean section is understood to have been a key component in the death of a newborn baby boy at Cavan General Hospital.

The Health Service Executive is to receive a bailout totalling €219m once voted on in the Dáil next week.

The Health Service Executive has reported a 7% increase in the number of elderly people suffering abuse.

Senator Jillian Van Turnhout says the Health Service Executive must respond to last night's Prime Time programme, which showed widespread breaches of HSE regulations at child care centres across the country.

Nursing unions are calling for a complete boycott of a new health service graduate employment scheme.

The Health Service Executive has said it has been in contact with legal representatives for Savita Halappanavar's husband Praveen about the inquiry into her death.

The Health Service Executive is to impose €130m of cost saving measures before the end of the year.

A foster father with previous convictions who has applied to foster a second child appeared in the High Court yesterday, charged with possessing drugs worth almost €830,000.

Taoiseach Enda kenny has today insisted that the Health Service Executive has a contingency plan to deal with staff departures.

NINETY-THREE-year-old Esther Holden had hoped to end her days in a Dublin public nursing home that is due to close soon.

The Health Service Executive has said that there will be no cap on the issuing of medical cards for the rest of 2011.

THE father of a Co Leitrim teenager who needs a liver transplant said he has been reassured that there is no need to relocate his family to Dublin or London to ensure her place on the waiting list for a donor organ.

The Health Service Executive is to investigate claims that the private medical records of dozens of patients were found in a bin outside Roscommon County Hospital.

The Health Service Executive said today that it is "imposing a pause" on hiring at all levels in the organisation, including positions exempt from the recruitment moratorium.

JUSTICE MINISTER Alan Shatter said it is up to gardaí to investigate whether or not the operators of the school where paedophile Michael Ferry worked broke any criminal law.

The long-awaited report into the handling of clerical abuse allegations in the diocese of Cloyne will be published later today.

The Health Service Executive has said there is no attempt being made to downgrade small hospitals around the country.

WITH more than 1,800 patients waiting three months or more for a bowel cancer test, little has changed since Susie Long died of the disease, her husband said yesterday.

The Health Service Executive is to ban the practice of double jobbing.

The Health Service Executive is backing the call from student nurses and midwives to retain pay for fourth year trainees.

Taoiseach Brian Cowen tonight said there is an urgent need to look at new laws on home care services amid reports of shocking treatment of elderly patients by staff.

AN Irish man with an intellectual disability and a risk due to his sexualised behaviour will have to be transferred from a British hospital back to Ireland.

The HSE is planning an 'Integrated University Hospital Network' in Cork and Kerry.

A PRESCRIPTION tax brought in yesterday could stop the sickest and poorest from taking their medicine, pharmacists warned.

A prescription tax brought in today could stop the sickest and poorest from taking their medicine, pharmacists warned.

THE number of children diagnosed with tuberculosis at a Cork primary school has risen to 37, but the source of infection has still not been found even though screening of pupils and staff is complete.

AMID a sprinkling of rain and a smidgeon of apprehension, parents yesterday walked their children through the gates of Scoil Iósaf primary school into the media spotlight and a new school term, albeit a week behind schedule.

The Health Service Executive is being ordered to pay out €25,000 in compensation to an employee who successfully accused the group of discrimination.

A social worker must be allocated to every child in state care, a leading homeless charity said today.

The Health Service Executive is being criticised for the manner in which it has released information on the deaths of children in the care of the State.

Eighteen children were killed, died from drugs or by suicide while in state care over the past ten years, the Health Service Executive (HSE) said tonight.

The Health Service Executive has said 37 children died in State care in the last 10 years, from January 2000 to the end of April this year.

Tánaiste Mary Coughlan has today confirmed that the Health Service Executive will reveal in a matter of days the number of children who have died in State care.

The Health Service Executive has said it is seeking legal advice on how to disclose files in relation to children in its care without breaching data protection laws.

PRECAUTIONS to battle a possible wave of swine flu infections are still in place a year since the first case of the deadly virus was diagnosed on Irish shores.

The Health Service Executive is admitting that it significantly failed in the provision of services to two young people who died while in the care of the State.

The Health Service Executive (HSE) says the plume of volcanic ash from Iceland is not considered to be a significant risk to public health because it is currently at high altitude.

Irish hospitals face a shortage of doctors because new visa arrangements are deterring non-EU doctors from coming to Ireland, the Irish Medical Organisation (IMO) has warned.

CHILDREN’S Minister Barry Andrews said the long delay in preparing a report into the death of a teenager in state care eight years ago was indefensible.

The Health Service Executive has confirmed it is investigating the death of a woman at Roscommon County Hospital.