"Transwomen are not allowed in Irish female prisons or female hospital wards."
Katispancuddly thats said a lot but its not true, there is no provision in the act that hospitals wards will be kept single sex (in the actual meaning of sex) nor as far as I'm aware has the HSE said that
To quote myself from another thread about prisons: "Under current Irish law you can't move prisons if you are in the prison of one sex you cannot be transferred to the prison of the other sex as its down to warrant issued by the court (although thats probably ripe for an ECHR case)
The court could decide to issue a warrant for a transwoman to a womens prison, theres nothing stopping it and if you read pg 18 and 19 of this pdf (from a few months after self ID) its said that they go on whats on a persons birth cert which with self ID is changeable
www.iprt.ie/files/IPRT_Out_on_the_Inside_2016_EMBARGO_TO_1030_Feb_02_2016.pdf
Francis Fitzgerald (when she was minister for justice) confirms here its based on "legal identity" www.inis.gov.ie/en/JELR/Pages/PQ-24-01-2017-106"