Physically disabled deaf woman's action against HSE over nursing home decision to go to mediation

A damages claim brought by a profoundly deaf woman with physical disabilities against a decision of the HSE to put in her a nursing home is to go to mediation the High Court has heard.

Last May 35-year-old Jennifer Walsh who requires a wheelchair and can only communicate through Irish sign language launched proceedings over being placed by the HSE in a nursing home in Co Carlow in 2017.