The girl's gynaecologist was of the view that the transfusion would only be used as a last resort when all other possible treatments were excluded.

This follows the Labour Court dismissing the discrimination claim that the HSE had breached the Employment Equality Act over its treatment of multitasking healthcare assistant, Judyta Zielinska, while she was working with Wexford Residential Intellectual Disabilities Services.

The applicant was also asked why Jehovah's Witnesses refuse blood transfusions, but he did not know, even though he claimed to have converted to the religion nine years previously.