Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 30 September 2025

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Engagement with Institute of Public Health

2:00 am

Photo of Peadar TóibínPeadar Tóibín (Meath West, Aontú)

-----from the information I have, there was a spike of co-operation in the early days after the Good Friday Agreement but things have remained pretty static since then with regard to new services coming on board that could be used by people North and South.

This may not be the witnesses' area but there is a differential between services delivered North and South. There is a woman by the name of Catherine Sherry who recently died from cancer. The service was not available in the North of Ireland. It was available in the South of Ireland but she could not use the Southern service. She had to go to London, which really damaged her ability to recover and to be with her children in her last number of weeks. There are plenty of examples of that. I refer to even just having a systemic picture of what is available in the North, what is available in the South and what does not cross the Border, to be able to work systematically in trying to join up those two sources of healthcare delivery so we have an all-Ireland health service.

I do not know whether any work has been done on that. How would we find out that information?

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