Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I advise Deputy Naughten that there will not be a separation of mothers and babies in any new unit that will be built. In the case of any woman who suffers from postnatal depression, the plan is that there will be a bed available for both the mother and the baby. All modern thinking informs us that there should be no separation.

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