Professor Sean Daly

Good morning.

So I suppose, first of all, I'm not a member of the board.

I did contribute to the discussion.

I contributed to most discussions in the board because I have been around a long time and I have, I think, got a range of experience of women's health care that some people don't have, you know.

So I absolutely contributed to the conversation.

I contributed to it last night.

And the board made a unanimous decision.

I think the possibility of funding being withheld from the Rotunda Hospital just made it a situation where the board, who would always put the health of women and children first,

could not continue to hold its position.

Now, I actually think they were right to take the position they did.

You know, it is about women's health care.

And there's been a lot of misinformation, Clare.

You know, if you work in the rotunda, you have a rotunda contract.

Therefore, the rotunda is your employer.

The new POCC contract was not negotiated by the rotunda.

It was negotiated by the Department of Health.

Sorry, the public-only contract.

So we were implementing that contract.

And, you know, the option or the, I suppose, principle that women should be allowed to choose is a very important one, I think.

So Clause 2410, which interestingly was inserted by the department in the late stages of the negotiations.