Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Independent)

The clinical advice I have received from Professor Turner and others is that it should be signed off by an obstetrician. It would be difficult if we required a signing off by two obstetricians in every case because we have some very small hospitals where there are only two or three obstetricians. The machine in question was not old. The lifespan of these machines is seven years and the one in question was only six years old.

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