An full report into how a very young girl with a serious heart condition died at home less than 24 hours after her surgery was cancelled will be received by the Minister for Health and Children, Mr Martin, by the end of the week.
The girl was discharged from Our Lady's Hospital for Sick Children in Crumlin on Monday because an intensive care nurse was not available to monitor her after her scheduled operation.
Details of the little girl, who suffered from congenital heart disease, have not been released but it is understood she is a two-year-old from Limerick city.
The report into the death will be conducted by the Eastern Regional Health Authority (ERHA) in consultation with doctors at Crumlin.
A spokesperson for the hospital said there was "a global problem" with a lack of paediatric intensive care nurses and only 13 of the hospital's 21 intensive care beds were currently open.
Public and political outrage has been sparked by the death with the Government's track record on health, particularly its failure to deliver on election promises, coming under the spotlight. Opposition parties blame poor planning and funding for the tragedy.
The Children's Rights Alliance (CRA) today called on the Government to provide more funding for children's health care.
Noting that Ireland had ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Alliance said: "Children's fundamental health care rights ... are being systematically ignored and routinely trampled upon with apparent impunity."
CRA chief executive, Mr Ray Dooley also called for for the office of Children's Ombudsman - legislation for which was passed by the Dáil over a year ago - to be created immediately.
"Children urgently need an independent champion who can stand up for their rights and hold public officials and statutory bodies accountable when they engage in gross violations of children's rights," Mr Dooley said.
Meanwhile, the vice-president of the State's largest union, SIPTU, has called for a national protest against the Government's failure to improve the health service.
Mr Jack O'Connor told the ICTU biennial conference in Tralee today that the trade union movement should co-operate with health campaigners in protesting against a "two-tier health service" which could be described as "a bizarre sick joke perpetrated on the most disadvantaged in our society".
"It is clear to everyone that the public health system in the Republic is in crisis with the now familiar never-ending litany of ward closures, staff shortages, and persistently lengthy waiting lists which is far from the standard to be expected in one of Europe's more prosperous states," Mr O'Connor said.