Mr. Donal O'Raghallaigh:

There has been quite a lot of commentary on the legal aspects. As Mr. Menton has indicated, the Minister has indicated he has listened to concerns about it. From our perspective, it has not been inserted at the behest of SVHG. It was inserted by the Minister with a view to clarifying the protection of the NMH hospital that "clinically appropriate", as the Minister has enunciated it, will relate to the type of procedures you would find in a maternity hospital, as opposed to a broad range of procedures that you would find in other types of hospitals. Personally, from a common-sense approach, that is how it reads but a concern has been raised and SVHG awaits any further comment on it from one of our partners, be it the NMH or the Minister, on it.