Dr. Kevin Kelleher:

May I come in? The HSE is at the moment looking at how we will have to provide all our services into the future of this pandemic. It is one of our key tasks at the moment to see how we can provide services such as the Deputy is talking about - maternity services - which actually have carried on the whole time throughout this, as clearly they need to. We are looking to how we provide services such as these in a world where Covid-19 will exist. It may or may not be known if people have Covid-19, and therefore we have to provide the services in those ways. We are seeking to do this in many very innovative ways.

Increasingly, some of this will happen via telephone and video etc. to facilitate a lot of this and to ensure people are not being exposed, either when coming into our facilities or when they are already in our facilities. We are looking at that now and members will have heard our CEO and others talk about this in recent weeks. One of our key tasks is to see how we can provide all of our services in this period. The Deputy is talking about a specific issue, which we have carried on with throughout this period, and our maternity services have been very involved in looking at how they had to deal with these circumstances.