Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 November 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implication of Brexit for Health Law in Ireland and EU: Discussion

Professor Tamara Hervey:

I will add a small point about legitimacy arising from some of the research we have done in a couple of towns in Northern Ireland. We asked people in the street what they would like for health governance post Brexit. From those data, the question of legitimacy will depend a great deal on how much investment there is in healthcare and, in particular, health staffing in Northern Ireland after Brexit. People want to see more money and more people in healthcare. They talk about certain kinds of people, especially nursing staff, and they want to see more visible investment. That would do a great deal to secure a notion that what is happening with health, in particular - I am not talking about the broader picture - is actually a legitimate future for what people want in Northern Ireland.

That is what our street conversation data tell us.

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