Alison Comyn (Fianna Fail)

Cuirim fáilte roimh na finnéithe go léir. I thank them for coming. One of the joys of being this far down the speakers list is that I have almost ticked off almost every question I had, but I thank the witnesses because I have learned a lot. I will have to think a little outside the box.

I come from a Border county. I am based in County Louth so I have watched a steady flow of resources over and back across the Border. It is not always great, but it is usually fantastic. I have enjoyed seeing that. Hearing about the work the witnesses have been doing, I am reminded I availed of knee surgery in the Kingsbridge hospital in Belfast as part of the cross-Border initiative. That is a private hospital, but can that model be taken and used for anything else? Are there any plans for that within public health?