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THE HUSBAND OF Savita Halappanavar has settled his medical negligence case against the HSE.
Praveen Halappanavar settled the case against the HSE and obstetrician Katherine Astbur out of court – just days before a three-day hearing was due to start in the High Court this afternoon.
Mr Justice Kevin Cross rubber stamped the settlement today. Halappanavar’s solicitor Gerard O’Donnell refused to comment on the case.
Papers lodged with the High Court in 2013 for the personal injury summons included over 30 instances of alleged negligence.
Praveen claims that his wife’s constitutional right to life was breached. Both a Hiqa report and separate HSE review have criticised the handling of Savita’s case.
Halappanavar was expected to return back to Ireland to give evidence in the case but he did not come back from the US for today’s proceedings.
The HSE also made an out of court settlement of €35,000 with Savita’s parents Akamahadevi and Andanappa Yalagi and her two older brothers.
Savita was 17 weeks pregnant when she was admitted to Galway University Hospital on 21 October 2012.
She died one week later on 28 October after miscarrying and going into septic shock due to E coli in her bloodstream.
An inquest into the death heard that Savita asked for a termination on several occasions but was refused because a foetal heartbeat was detected and an abortion could not be carried out under Irish law as her life did not appear to be in danger at that time.
Halappanavar’s death has brought the issue of Ireland’s abortion laws back into the spotlight.
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You can get some dodgy fifty euro notes in the south. This is old news, to me anyhow.
You are dead right Paul. You earn the money you decide how to spend it. If I lived closer to the border I would definitely shop north. The biggest reason for higher prices here is “rip off”. And to all the red thumb merchants. B******s.
Dead right, I buy Irish goods from Irish suppliers and English goods from English suppliers. Why should I buy English goods at inflated prices from an Irish middle man? Only exception I make is on the rare occasion when I have bought Irish goods in England cheaper than in Ireland. Now that’s wrong pricing somewhere surely! Source of origin on food labels is misleading and almost impossible to ascertain. For instance a food product can be imported from abroad and repackaged with a local suppliers ID labelling, so the country of origin is lost to the consumer.
Why tell them that? They are worse than the TD’s stealing from the people. People who shop in the north should go live up there and earn their living up there. If they ever need an ambulance , fire brigade, police, etc go and call the services up north as that is what you are doing by shopping up there. If you want to keep the few people who have jobs in work in the south ie your neighbour or family member than stay and pay a little towards their employment. Dare I suggest you reduce your purchases by 10% in the south and everybody would be better off. When I see the fat people from the south pushing trolled in the stores up north I think they could do with a lot less shopping.
I go up north and do some shopping. I did it last weekend actually! I spent 170 euro on beer, and a net book. Everything else was more or less the same price or cheaper down south. But I didn’t go up north to save money ( although I did ) I went up for the day out. I can’t afford holidays anywhere. I stay at my house for my holidays. I work and have practically zero left ( some months less than zero left) each month. I pay way more than my fair share of taxes and I am entitled to spend 175 euro while I am on my ( holidays).
I assume that you holiday at home, buy only Irish products every week?
Don’t judge me, you don’t know me! Besides, I believe in a United Ireland. Our government has cross border trade and governmental institutions set up. If our government says by it’s actions that it is ok then it’s ok by me. And another thing, the majority of the civil construction tenders are awarded by our government departments to northern construction companies because of price, so cop on and grow up.
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Interesting that you judge me – I may be disabled for all you know! Construction workers are loosing jobs to northern contractors you say – I rest my case. When you are directly impacted it is wrong yet when our retailers and producers are impacted it is not a concern to you. It makes the case for the government shopping up north for cheaper contractors. I think it is wrong yet I am on my own on this I think.
We have plenty of fake banknotes down here. They are called “euros”.
Just use a credit card for shopping And pay it off in full, easiet way.
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