It is 'unconscionable' to make private maternity patients feel 'guilty or privileged', committee to hear 

master of the Rotunda Hospital Sean Daly will address the Oireachtas Health Committee on Wednesday 

The minister and the master of the Rotunda Hospital were at loggerheads after it emerged that consultants who had signed up to the public-only contract were conducting private practice in the Rotunda.  Picture: Leah Farrell/Rollingnews.ie

It is “unconscionable” that women have been made to feel “guilty or privileged” for seeking private maternity care, the master of Dublin's Rotunda Hospital is expected to say on Wednesday.

The comments, to be made by Professor Sean Daly at the Oireachtas Health Committee meeting, are perceived as a dig at health minister Jennifer Carroll MacNeill.