Professor Sean Daly

And so so this was never about, you know, the redundant safety.

This is about my children, your children having choice in 10 years time or 15 years time when all the consultants who are currently on the old contract have retired.

So I think public patients in the Rotunda, and we have more than 6,000 public patients, we have more complex public patients than anybody in the country, have access to excellent care.

They have it already.

There's no two-tiered system in the Rotunda.

But that is a woman's choice.

So if a woman has had recurrent early pregnancy losses...

or has a medical disorder like high blood pressure or Crohn's disease or something like that.

And she feels, I'm very anxious about this pregnancy.

I actually want to know who's going to take care of me, who's going to be there for the delivery.

What all the rotunda is saying is that she's entitled to that.

And in the public system, she would absolutely get that.

She would get it in clinics.

No, no, but I'm not saying... I used that as an example of the type of women who may choose to want to go privately.

There are many women who are...

normal risk who choose that they want to go privately.

It's not about the complexity of the care.

It's about the continuity of the care.

And the perception of some women is that they need that continuity.

And for example, a woman can decide that she wants to pay a doula or a private midwife to accompany her in the rotunda.