Kelly: Visitor Restrictions At Some Maternity Hospitals Across Country "Barbaric"

The HSE has written to facilities urging them to comply with new guidelines about the attendance of partners at anomaly scans and labour

However expectant mothers say this has not been happening consistently around the country.

Labour Leader Alan Kelly says the Health Minister needs to act:

"Somebody has to call this in. You have no consistency so individual hospitals are making their own decisions. That's not equitable. It's not fair. For the women, and for the partners involved, It's barbaric. It's just wrong, absolutely wrong. It has to be dealt with."