Dervla

I was nervous, first baby, a number of issues and I had, you know, I had, I saw the same, every second visit was to the GP and the ones in the hospital.

I saw a registrar who was a young woman about my age, specialist in obstetrics and she was

Yeah, she was great.

Like I had a great service, but it was wrong that I could afford to pay for that.

I would accept it.

And I would also be agitating for everybody to have a continuity of care, to basically have the same doctor that you're seeing over the course of your pregnancy.

It does not seem like a big ask.

It doesn't have to be a consultant unless a consultant is warranted because it's high risk.

I mean, I thought it was a perfectly reasonable thing to not want a male obstetrician.

And, you know, I would still feel like that.

But I think that everybody should have that.

And I would be agitating and I'd be roaring the house down for them to actually provide to me as a public patient.

And if they said you can't go private, you can't go semi-private, it's no longer available, that's fine because I actually morally agree with that.

You know, I think...

I think they need to up their game in terms of what they're providing to everyone and not be giving all their attention to trying to accommodate those who want to go private.

If they want to go private, the private consultants and the private hospitals and the private insurance companies need to sort that out and provide the service.

It's a business.

It's commercial operations.

I'm not getting into an argument now.

I just was making my point.