Cormac Devlin (Dún Laoghaire, Fianna Fail)

Even in your own statement, Professor Matthews, you referred to cross-Border healthcare and the successes we have seen already from collaboration and genuinely working together. There have been benefits to that, but you also alluded to the fact that there was a real focus on Border communities as opposed to that macro piece of genuine collaboration between both jurisdictions.

On the funding piece for an all-island health committee, with regard to the shared island initiative, a huge amount of money has gone into research, and you acknowledged that.

The health policy unit was mentioned. Would there not be scope there for both jurisdictions to contribute a certain amount to benefit, ultimately, some universal healthcare system as one unit? Would there not be a benefit to having co-funding?