HSE won’t extend maternity hospital access to fully immunised partners

Social Democrats co-leader Catherine Murphy asked why the vaccination rollout has made no apparent difference to the lack of access women in maternity units have to their partners. Picture: Gareth Chaney

Fully vaccinated partners of expectant mothers will not be given additional access to maternity hospitals, the HSE has confirmed.

Calls have been repeatedly made to end the ad hoc system of restrictions imposed on the partners of pregnant people attending the country's 19 maternity units since the outbreak of the pandemic.