Mr. Muiris O'Connor:

I will hand most of those questions to Ms Morgan, including the question on the timescale for our legislation and any learnings that will inform the framing of that. Perhaps Ms Morgan will also have more reflections on the capacity challenges in the North and on orthopaedics. I thank the Senator for his compliments about the wider preparations across the public service for Brexit. We have mitigated the worst potential of same. It was an enormous programme in health and much of it did not need to be put into effect but it has served us well in understanding exactly where the vulnerabilities in our medical supply lines are. There has been an awful lot of rerouting of our supply lines in medicine and health that still stands to us. This includes direct ferries from Europe, reducing our dependency on the UK and building up our capacity of medicines with a short shelf life. Both Houses of the Oireachtas have stood by the public service in recent years in that respect.