Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My view on this issue is that the cross-border directive was specifically designed at a European level. They started it in 2007 and it went through and came into Ireland in 2012 eventually. It was transposed into Irish law. It is an effective way of using that mechanism. If the funding is refused, I believe it is a judicial review issue to get an overall decision on that. That is one issue.

The second issue I want to touch on is about figures we got from the HSE about the special clinics it has set up in Cork and in Dublin. The figures the executive gave us are that 40 have attended Cork, 69 have attended Dublin and there are 16 on a waiting list. Those figures seem small compared to the figure the witnesses are talking about, which is 750. Is there a specific reason people are not going to these clinics? Is it only that they are not aware of these clinics or they are not being referred to them?