Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I do not accept that. The explanation stands up on several grounds. We are to some extent protecting maternity services also against the pressures of the State so that the State does not say that it has a state-of-the-art building, it has a lot of extra beds, it has a lot of extra operating theatres and a lot of extra diagnostics and could it not maybe push in and start using those services. It is very much around that.

To the core concern around "clinically appropriate" because it has been raised repeatedly, maybe Professor Higgins would give a view as to-----