Gino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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My final question relates to maternity visits. Like other Deputies, I have received a plethora of quite distressing emails from people in difficult situations. The guidelines are welcome but it seems to be arbitrary as to whether certain hospitals have adopted them. Surely we have reached a stage at which the adoption of these guidelines facilitating people visiting their loved ones in maternity hospitals should not be so arbitrary. Judging by some of the emails we are getting, that seems to be the case. I would like to hear Mr. Reid's comments as to the arbitrary nature of the adoption of the guidance which the HSE is supporting, as it does not seem to have been implemented by particular hospitals. People are having different experiences.