Louise O'Reilly (Dublin Fingal, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This goes to the heart of the issue I was trying to get at. It does not appear that advance planning is being carried out to any great extent. The Department waited for the committee to invite officials to discuss Brexit before seeking information from the HSE. If the Department was being proactive, with the greatest of respect to the officials, surely they should have that information. The vote on Brexit took place in the middle of last year. Should the committee write to them every week to say it wants them to discuss Brexit? This is a massive issue but they only requested the information from the HSE following the committee's invitation to appear. Mr. Goodman's opening statement is based on analysis that is being done and on deeper analysis. What are officials analysing if they have not discussed the extent to which we are reliant on the NHS to treat patients who should be treated here but are not? If they have not done that, what are they analysing? What planning are they doing to replace the directive? It does not seem that Brexit is a priority issue but it should be.