Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I might give a short answer on the phrase "clinically appropriate" and ask Professor Higgins to give a clinical view. The term "clinically appropriate" refers to services that are clinically appropriate for a maternity, gynaecology, neonatal and obstetric hospital. It does not include procedures relating to, for example, cardiology or neurology. The term has caused understandable concern and it is something we have been debating at length during this meeting, but that is what it means under the constitution. Professor Higgins might give a clinical perspective.