Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome all the witnesses. Nearly every question I intended to ask has been asked by my colleagues and fair play to the witnesses for having answered them more or less adequately. Recruitment and retention of staff will be a major problem. The witnesses might elaborate on how that issue can be resolved. Obviously, if we do not have the staff, there will not be a strategy. Staff are an essential requirement. More emphasis needs to be put on that issue. I would like to hear the witnesses' comments on that.

The issue of fertility is part of the maternity strategy. Not every women is lucky enough to get as far as being in a maternity hospital to give birth. The witnesses might indicate their thoughts on that issue.