Dr. Cl?ona Murphy:

I cannot comment on individual cases, but nobody would ever be blocked from going abroad if that person chose to do so and preferred to go to a different centre. However, the HSE can only administer the treatment abroad scheme and we cannot do so retrospectively. It has always been the case in medicine that, sometimes, people decide they wish to access treatment, in London or elsewhere, that they have heard is good. That goes for fertility and other aspects of medicine. Nobody would stand in someone's way in that, nor would there be any barrier to anybody coming back from aftercare if that was the case. However, I cannot comment on individual cases in that matter.