Professor Sean Daly:

Assisted reproduction really took off when Professor Harrison started his unit in the Rotunda Hospital. He had started in St. James's Hospital and then moved to the Rotunda Hospital in the early 1990s. A plethora of services have since been made available. For financial reasons, some decide to recommend that women travel to countries outside Ireland. The Czech Republic is the most common. My experience of these services is that they are good. One of the key performance indicators - if that is the correct word to use - in infertility services is the number of multiple pregnancies. Multiple pregnancy rates have dropped significantly as people are being much more careful. Pregnancies end up being complicated with triplets or quads when the ovary is stimulated pharmaceutically and people do not make sure it is not over-stimulated and do not follicle-track the women involved. That has been poor in this country.