Alan Kelly (Tipperary, Labour)
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1194. To ask the Minister for Health when the National Maternity Strategy will be fully implemented [20101/20]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The National Maternity Strategy - Creating a Better Future Together 2016 - 2026 was published in January 2016 and represents the blueprint for the development of a new maternity service. 

Within the HSE, the National Women & Infants Health Programme leads the management, organisation and delivery of maternity, gynaecology and neonatal services, and drives implementation of the Strategy.  The Programme published a Strategy Implementation Plan in 2017 and work is progressing on the individual elements of that plan.  I am advised however, that there has been some slippage in terms of the timelines and consequently the Programme is currently revisiting the original Plan, with a view to providing up-to-date timelines for the implementation of the Strategy's recommendations.

As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.