Baby Scandals: Hiqa: Impossible to say all hospitals are safe

The State health watchdog has refused to say every maternity hospital in the country is safe.

Amid controversy over baby deaths, the Health Information and Quality Authority (Hiqa) said it was up to the HSE to stand over its hospitals.

Before an Oireachtas committee hearing into the Midland Regional Hospital in Portlaoise, Hiqa chiefs were pressed as to whether expectant mothers were safe going to the hospital.