Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution

Risks to Mental Health: Dr. Anthony McCarthy, National Maternity Hospital, Holles Street

1:30 pm

Dr. Anthony McCarthy:

Correct. I hope that my business managers are listening. It is to be hoped I will be a full-time psychiatrist in Holles Street in the near future. There are plans under the national perinatal strategy for mother and baby units, with one in St. Vincent's hospital when the National Maternity Hospital moves to that site. It would be for the whole of the city. As the committee knows, however, that move is some way off. Currently, there is no mother and baby unit in the country.