Ireland has more stillborn babies than road deaths every year, Oireachtas committee told

Shortages of midwives and public health nurses were raised by a number of speakers at the Oireachtas health committee. File picture: Denis Scannell

More babies are stillborn or die within a month of being born in Ireland every year than people die on the roads, a bereaved mother warned on Wednesday.

An Oireachtas health committee has been told by bereaved parents, doctors and nurses that maternity services do not need more plans but rather urgent action on all of the now decade-old 2016 maternity strategy.