NO, because while this is fine in principle, knowing the HSE, these hospitals will be closed before the new facilities are built.

Why can't they just concentrate on getting the system to a good standard and providing an excellent service to it's patients? This move would cost "us" even more money....why doesn't the government look at our neighbouring countries and maybe they could pick up a few useful pointers in how to run our health service.

The general hospitals are filthy, the result of this would be MRSA in newborns. Mind you, we have had MRSA in Newborns in one of the Dublin hospitals already... The big question I have is 'What's the plan?' and the answer is... there doesn't seem to be one. 'Upgrade the maternity hospitals', then 'move them to a central site', now its 'move to general sites'. There is no plan just a bunch of consultants collecting (our) money for writing reports and zero action. Our maternity hospitals are a disgrace, but like most people I have no faith at all in the HSE to 'deliver' (parden the pun).

I vote NO to this poll because as the recession has hit us all bad we will not have any labourers to build the new hospitals then it will be too late

NO TO THE POLL.

The people who are running the HSE are similar to those who ran the Banks. Its like putting the patients in charge of the Assylum. Where is it all going to end. First of all it was our old people and now they turn their attention to the new born.

Yet another stupid idea from the HSE, very soon they will start moving Ireland out of ireland. its a pity the so-called experts that seem to know so much of what we want and should have in services, governments and so forth doesnt move themselves to another site preferably out of Ireland and give us a island that is run properly and by people who care for us not ones who care only for themselves.

Why fix what isn't broken.

I am now a grandmother, but well remember needing public transport to Holles Street and later the Rotunda for prenatal care and checkups. Both are centrally located and easy to access, and the Coombe is also central and on several public transport routes. These are important considerations.

A large public hospital is the last place is not where I wanted to be. Pregnancy and childbirth are not illnesses. While things can go wrong and medical intervention may be necessary, my preference would always have been a dedicated maternity hospital with intensive neonatal care available if necessary.

The Mater and Vincent's are very large sites, and both are very busy and impersonal, intended for those who are ill. There are associated risks with these sites, eg MRSA and other infections.

The best option is to continue the drive for high standards in the maternity hospitals in their present locations. Better still, open more small maternity units, or re-open those already closed around the country and allow mothers to give birth near or at home if the pregnancy is normal.

No way, Years ago we had 4 Maternity Hospitals in Dublin. They downsized them to 3, I know for sure I was there. It was located in St. James's Hospital. It was on seperate grounds isolated from other medical buildings for adults. All of St. James's Hospital was known as St. Kevin's Hospital then.

I had two babies there, one in 1980, one in 1982. Then when I was pregnant in 1987 I found out from my G.P. that they had shut down and transferred all their Patients to The Coombe Lying In Hospital as it was called then. (This transition happened sometime over 4.5 years)

I would love to know the amount of beds they closed down in St. Kevin's. In The Coombe Hospital some things were fine, they were much cleaner than hospitals now. I remember being there. I witnessed Cardiologists coming to women from their Hospital to The Coombe to check these pregnant women. Checking Diabetics while pregnant, keeping women in with high blood pressure, the list goes on and on.

On my pregnancy in 1987 I witnessed a full ward shut down while being brought up for a Scan as an in-patient by a Nurse. A Long coloured rope of some kind was right across the entrance to the ward.

The then Government in retrospect fooled us all, they shut down XXXX amount of beds in St. Kevin's. Moved in-patients to The Coombe Hospital, and this was before The Coombe refurbished it's out-patients clinic, and extended buildings for more public beds and Private Beds.

Most especially I agree with what siobhan wrote "to have MRSA in Newborns What's The Plan".

It's not too many babies are all born to Irish Citizens, it includes all the E.U. families that can come here and load up the system. We can all travel within any E.U. member state. Many Asylum Seekers who fled their Countries upped the birth Rates as well. Our Government didn't see this coming, and they should have. They had archives that their advisers could have shown them from the 3 Maternity Hospitals. It seems nobody in the H.S.E. give a damn about this or anything else to do with health.

The move of Holles St. out to St. Vincents might be a positive one but why move the Rotunda up the road to a site at the mater which will already be overcrowded with the Children hospital on it

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no, a maternity is a hospital for woman to have priviacy, its bad enough that the other hospitals are over crowed and that u have to wait on a bed for three to four days,