Professor Jennifer Todd:

One of the findings that came from our deliberative cafés is that we do not resolve the healthcare problems on a regional, simply cross-Border basis. It was our finding that commitment is needed from the politicians of Belfast and Dublin or London, Belfast and Dublin to get the big knocks sorted out. The women were really good at pointing out what needed to be done and what was not being done and what was coming out in each of the cafés was the participants were getting very frustrated because they could not see how to do it. It was that movement from real expertise on local and regional problems to what to do politically to resolve this that we needed extra discussions to deal with. That movement has to involve coming back to political will, constitutional issues and how to reorganise administration such that it doe snot lead to all of these knots and traps at every turn.