Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 19 January 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
National Maternity Strategy: Discussion
9:00 am
Mr. Liam Woods:
In terms of the data from 2014 to date and the benchmark in terms of numbers of births, we have that and can make it available to the committee. It is not a difficulty. In terms of the numbers of births, the ratios are in the Birthrate Plus report. They are based on a slightly higher number of births than we have now but we have not used that to alter the numbers, if the members know what I mean. The birth rate is falling slightly.
I want to touch on a couple of major themes and then come back to-----
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