Dr. Margo Wrigley:

We have had a couple of phone meetings this year. We had some early on when Northern Ireland was developing its service model. This year, we have had a couple of meetings to look at what we might do in a whole-island context, with a view to perhaps looking for funding for the whole island and any other funding we can get, to be quite honest with the Deputy. We were looking specifically at how we might work together in terms of having the same operations, but also whether there would be synergies. I am thinking in particular of women in County Donegal, for instance, who may need inpatient care having access to a unit in Northern Ireland if it suited them. They could be given the choice. That sort of provision might be of huge advantage. There are already models in operation such as children's cardiac surgery with children from the North coming to Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Crumlin, to have those interventions. There is no reason we could not look at it in terms of providing care for mothers.