Public fertility services will ‘take time’

There is concern that people are delaying treatment until funding is available

It will “take time” to build up publicly funded fertility services to meet demand from people who will be entitled to use them, an Oireachtas committee has been told.

The Department of Health’s chief medical officer, Dr Tony Holohan, said, despite their best intentions, it would take time to develop capacity in the system to a point where they would like it to be.