Professor Edgar Morgenroth:

Obviously, the NHS works better in Northern Ireland, although it has been under pressure in recent years, and the Republic is trying to move in that direction with Sláintecare. I am not an expert on health or on the social welfare system. However, I did calculate the recalibration of social welfare benefits, which are not very generous in the UK, to the more generous system in the Republic. In the note that I sent yesterday, I estimated how much that might cost, but it was a crude estimate, so I would advise the committee to get experts in that area to look at the issue.