Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 March 2017

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Implcations for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU: Discussion

1:30 pm

Mr. Fergal Goodman:

Of the 1,738 cases last year, approximately 700 went to Northern Ireland. We do not have a country breakdown at this point for the remaining 1,000. It is not an unfair working assumption that many of those went to the UK. The more we assume it is the UK, the more significant is the issue. We are, therefore, not seeking to down play the significance of what could be at play here.