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Minister for Health James Reilly (file photo) Sam Boal/Photocall Ireland

Minister Reilly "quite happy" for HSE inquiry into Savita death to continue

The Minister for Health made the comment despite admitting that the inquiry would not “have the completeness of information without Mr Halappanavar’s input”.

MINISTER FOR HEALTH James Reilly has today said that he was “quite happy” to pursue the HSE inquiry into the death of Savita Halappanavar, stating that it has already commenced.

His comment came in response to the continued calls of Praveen Halappanavar, via his legal team, that the investigation into his wife’s death should be a public one and that he would not cooperate with any HSE inquiry.

Making reference to this (audio below), Reilly said:

There may come a point where, obviously, we won’t have the completeness of information without Mr Halappanavar’s input and to me that will be regrettable but I want to get the investigation to that point at least before we have any further public discourse on this.

Earlier today, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny appealed to Praveen Halappanavar to meet with the chairman of the inquiry, Sir Sabaratnam Arulkumaran:

I would appeal directly to Praveen Halappanavar, who is a decent man, to meet with the chairperson of investigation team without prejudice because it is very necessary that the truth of these circumstances be found out.

Audio courtesy of NewsTalk.
http://soundcloud.com/paul_hyland/minister-reilly-savita-hse

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    Mute Cars
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:03 PM

    5%. Who makes this suff up! More like 25% at least.

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    Mute Daniel Roche
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    Aug 30th 2023, 2:09 PM

    @Cars: Facts mostly.

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    Mute another one? what's going on is the semi state sec
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    Aug 30th 2023, 3:38 PM

    @Cars: it’s a rolling year stat….. It’s up 18.4% from January 2021. Maybe that’s what you refer to. Google “CSO CPI inflation calculator”….. An eye opening tool

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    Mute Anon
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    Aug 30th 2023, 7:42 PM

    @Daniel Roche: skewed statistics more like. If only it was 5%, that’s fairytale stuff to feed to the general population. The current government (and previous) failed miserably to deliver. Their only option to stand any chance of remaining in power will be to try indoctrinate the citizens with complete BS to paint a fictional picture of delivering.

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    Mute John Fahy
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:02 PM

    Ii’ a lot more than that, grocery prices have soared.

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    Mute Trent
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:00 PM

    5% ? put 2 if front or the 5 and it’s correct

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    Mute Eddienowy Byrne
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    Aug 30th 2023, 12:57 PM

    Diesel gone up over 10c in Circle K in two weeks in Tallaght

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    Mute Murro
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:15 PM

    @Eddienowy Byrne: same here in Wicklow

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    Mute Gavin Kelly
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:23 PM

    @Eddienowy Byrne: just in time now that the government are putting on 5c on Friday on diesel and 7c on petrol .. they hate giving people a break

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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:45 PM

    @Gavin Kelly: That would imply that a break has ever been given.

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    Mute George Vladisavljevic
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:55 PM

    @Gavin Kelly: Especially handy when they can claim their fuel and expenses.

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    Mute Daniel Roche
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    Aug 30th 2023, 2:13 PM

    @Gavin Kelly: That’s a lie and you know it,I’m not agreeing with it but at least tell the truth,that is a major problem and why people will vote FF or FG,they can’t trust the other side,better the devil you know, maybe tell the truth.

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    Mute Eileen Kelly
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    Aug 30th 2023, 2:19 PM

    @George Vladisavljevic: You know the old saying ” All pigs are equal but some pigs are more equal”, Animal Farm.

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    Mute Mick D
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:11 PM

    5% and the rest. They having a laugh

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    Mute Sean Brannigan
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:20 PM

    Fuel rocketing back up as well since they put taxes back on ….this will lead to the increase of prices on everything

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    Mute Rafa C
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:08 PM

    Full shopping bags are down 50%! And the Price has increased by 25%!

    That’s just fact.

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    Mute Thomas
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:31 PM

    Who ever compiled this,please let us all know where you shop.

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    Mute Wolfgang Bonow
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:40 PM

    @Thomas: I shop in German supermarket and the numbers look about right to me, for the period over the last 12 months.
    Definitely not 25% or even +40% as claimed here.
    But maybe it’s my shopping habit – very little processed food on much meat either.

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    Mute Thomas
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:45 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: me also,the numbers may not be as high as 25 percent in some cases,but nothing is near as low as 5 percent.

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    Mute Ian Cryan
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    Aug 30th 2023, 2:14 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: even the German supermarkets have increased prices big time way more than the 5% spoke abouts.
    They can no way still call themselves discount supermarkets

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    Aug 30th 2023, 2:44 PM

    @Wolfgang Bonow: I do too.

    But I noticed bread had increased in price by 17% between my last 2 visits.

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    Mute Adam
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:22 PM

    These so called “journslist” from the journal printing lies and spreading falsehoods for the irish government..
    Shame on you all at the journal,

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    Mute Thomas
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:43 PM

    @Adam: I agree,the authors of this article obviously know this is way down on the reality,but go ahead and publish it anyway.

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    Mute Thomas Reddy
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:16 PM

    Absolute rubbish. Inflation is really running at about 43% easily. I haven’t changed my spending at all and unfortunately for banks their apps are the real key to finding out just how bad inflation really is. My app had my spend at 43% higher than this time last year and I’ve actually cut back on certain things.

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    Mute Tom Newell
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    Aug 30th 2023, 1:57 PM

    5%??? try 15 or 20% with some of the price increases ive seen lately……greed greed and more greed

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    Mute Thomas
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    Aug 30th 2023, 12:59 PM

    They will most definitely need revision,

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    Aug 30th 2023, 8:25 PM

    Brown Thomas getting a Lidl ‘middle isle’ this week apparently

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    Mute Dominic Leleu
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    Aug 31st 2023, 7:56 AM

    It can’t be that number…. Most of the prices have increased by 30 to 50 percent… That are lying.

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    Mute John Stevens
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    Aug 31st 2023, 12:48 PM

    5%? Do they take us for fools or what…And as a lot of comments state the fuel increases will add to inflation even more, not to mention the carbon tax coming in the budget.

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