Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion
Mr. Jim Breslin:
I am not being pedantic but I wish to unpick the word "risk". Once one risk rates, one will risk rate in terms of impact, such as if we did not have it, and based on vulnerability. If I could use a different terminology, we do not have a current concern that a product will not be available to us on day one or week one. There are products that, due to their nature, we will be monitoring very intensively over the period and we require, and have put in place, a number of contingencies to guard against any issues. There is risk, therefore, but it is not a risk that we are saying is of current concern, that says we have a shortage that we must deal with at this point in time.
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