TD: Maternity hospital health restrictions are 'straight-up bonkers'

As it currently stands, partners are allowed to enter the wards only after labour begins, though hospitals can implement their own guidelines. File image. 

A Sinn Fein TD has described health restrictions in maternity hospitals as "straight-up bonkers." 

In the Dáil this afternoon, Réada Cronin criticised the handling of guidelines in those hospitals by the government.