Ms Catherine Donohoe:

Again, that is not completely accurate. Each application is an individual application. When one applies for surgery it is either approved or declined. One can apply for further surgery, if that is deemed necessary. If one applies for follow-up care or to transfer one's care to another jurisdiction then that would not happen. One would have to have a very good reason follow-up care could not be provided in Ireland. If the follow-up care, being surgery, could not be provided in Ireland then, yes, of course one would be approved but one must have a new application.

In the initial application one could specify two or three surgeries or whatever but that information is required to be included in the first application. We can only approve what is applied for. We cannot approve what we do not know. If there is something that is required later on that was not known when making the first application then just re-apply.