Ms Jacinta Murphy:

I thank the committee for inviting us here. It is an honour for us, and for our children, to be here today.

We are all the time improving the memory boxes and act on feedback from parents. We do not own the organisation. Féileacáin belongs to the bereaved parents of Ireland.

We are adding a little pot of Vaseline to the memory box because some parents are afraid of their baby. They can put the Vaseline on the baby's lips and that will introduce them to touch and feel their baby.

We used to put a single-use camera in the box but the quality of pictures was not what we hoped and parents did not use them. One of our supporters, a bereaved parent himself, who owns a number of camera shops has kindly donated two highly specified digital cameras to the maternity hospitals. That means digital photographs can be taken, uploaded and returned to the families. There is a small glitch in this new project because we cannot find out who is in charge of the Internet in the hospitals. We need support on the matter.