Kate O'Connell (Dublin Bay South, Fine Gael)
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I would also like to point to the issues that Ms McDermott dealt with at the time of his birth and some of the lessons that can be learned from that. There are aspects that have been brought up at the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Health in respect of the national maternity strategy and the ten-year Sláintecare report about the provision of maternity services in Ireland. The witness may not be aware that new HSE national standards for bereavement care to ensure clinical counselling services are being rolled out to support all women, even in the cases of a miscarriage, an intended termination of a pregnancy or a late-term miscarriage. This is in the pipeline and there is recognition, on behalf of the Minister for Health, that this is an area we have not looked at before. I just wanted the witness to know this as a positive out of all this.