Violet-Anne Wynne (Clare, Sinn Fein)
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2396. To ask the Minister for Health if there will be a centralised top-down approach to lifting maternity restrictions (details supplied); if not, if hospital groups will be administering an ad hoc, location specific response; and when the Government will adhere to the recommendation by the World Health Organisation that a birthing person has a right to have a partner with them for all of their labour not only at the final hour even during the Covid-19 period. [24207/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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As this Parliamentary Question relates to an operational issue, it is a matter for the HSE. However, members of the Oireachtas are advised that the HSE is currently unable to access the information to answer Parliamentary Questions due to the recent cyber-attack, which has required a temporary shut-down of HSE IT systems. The disruption to service is on-going, and the HSE is working hard to restore its IT capacity and resume normal services. Members of the Oireachtas will be advised as soon as the HSE is again in a position to provide responses to PQs and are encouraged to resubmit their Parliamentary Questions at that point.