640 Ms Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children when the position of director of midwifery at Cork University Hospital will be filled; if the position will be independent of the director of nursing at CUH; her views on the concerns of midwives in the Cork area that if the position is not independent and without its own budgetary control, it will hamper initiatives to extend midwifery led care into the community, may create a situation where midwives could be moved to the general wards when the hospital is busy and undermines the assurances that the new maternity unit will have self governance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43946/06]

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640 Ms Lynch asked the Minister for Health and Children when the position of director of midwifery at Cork University Hospital will be filled; if the position will be independent of the director of nursing at CUH; her views on the concerns of midwives in the Cork area that if the position is not independent and without its own budgetary control, it will hamper initiatives to extend midwifery led care into the community, may create a situation where midwives could be moved to the general wards when the hospital is busy and undermines the assurances that the new maternity unit will have self governance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43946/06]

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