Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 10 February 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Engagement with Co-operation and Working Together
Mr. Damien McCallion:
I can certainly provide the list of services. I do not have the numbers. I hate to have to push that to the HSE, which I am a part of. I can certainly work on the HSE to try to get the numbers collectively. We have an EU unit that works with colleagues in Northern Ireland on that. We need to be clear that it is not the role of CAWT. Those arrangements are put in place on a provider-to-provider basis. I can provide the Deputy with a list and certainly an indication of the range of it. They tend to be more specialised services such as the cancer services, radiotherapy and cardiac emergency services that I mentioned. I do not believe the numbers reflect the value. Services such as paediatric congenital heart surgery are crucial services provided on an all-island basis. While the numbers are very small, it took years to develop and has brought benefit to children, North and South. I will certainly provide that list to the Deputy and we can also outline the projects we have and the number of people availing of them in the Border region which would be much larger numbers. However, those are being delivered within, for example, the western trust or the HSE in Donegal, Monaghan, Cavan or in the hospitals.
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