Dr. Ann Hogan:

To follow on from the issue of the doctors, an awful lot will depend on the recognition of qualifications. If Irish doctors working in the UK are in training and the qualification concerned will not be recognised in other EU countries, they may well leave the UK, but then if the qualifications are recognised, who knows what will happen? There has traditionally been considerable movement of Irish doctors back and forwards to the UK for training and for longer-term work, as there has been with all kinds of Irish workers, but increasingly, Irish doctors are going further afield to other English-speaking countries. They are going to Australia, Canada and the US also. The UK is not the main market for Irish graduates, whereas it used to be.

On the question about the North-South Ministerial Council, I suppose if the UK is leaving the EU, because of the UK being our closest neighbours and that making it practical for us to collaborate on many issues, particularly in relation to rare diseases, and also due to part of the UK being part of our island where collaboration in all areas makes the most sense, negotiating bodies at every level will have to be established between us and the UK to replace negotiations that would have gone on at European level in the past because it is too important to both populations to let those connections die.

Does Professor Duffy want to add anything?