Ms Hilda Wall:

We have one whole-time equivalent in the hospital in Holles Street dealing with this. When we have very premature babies or full-term babies who are ill or babies with a life-limiting condition, we plan their discharge from the day of admission. We walk the parents through the process and through what they can expect and try to link them into the services. We have a very good palliative care team in Dublin to work with them. We also help link them to the Jack & Jill foundation, Sunshine House and the LauraLynn House. We make those connections for them and have meetings with them. Before the babies go home, we have multidisciplinary team meetings so that we link them into the services as well as possible.