Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 16 October 2025

Public Accounts Committee

Financial Statements 2024: Health Service Executive

2:00 am

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

For pregnancies that continue to be supported there and the deliveries that are happening, however, I operate a very simple principle that if I did not believe it was safe, I would not continue to do it. What is being done is being managed. There is an expert team in there that is independent of the hospital. It continues to be on site; it has been there since the start of the year and will be there right to the end of this year. That gives me a level of assurance. However, in terms of higher risk pregnancies, I could not say that right now.