Professor Jim Egan:

The Deputy has asked a very good question. We have spent a lot of time engaging with our European counterparts and have developed memorandums of understanding, MoUs, with Eurotransplant. Geographically, and because time is very short, when an organ is out of the body we end up working closely with the UK. That goes back to the discussion point about Northern Ireland. The reality is we must work very closely with the UK, particularly around organ sharing. The UK has strengths and weaknesses as do we but we will continue to work with other jurisdictions. Europe is very healthy because it brings a lot of good quality benchmarks to be achieved. We will work both with continental Europe and the UK in that regard.