Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael)

It is the detail that affects the relationships North and South about which the Taoiseach speaks, as the Ceann Comhairle knows. The question is about discussions with the parties in Northern Ireland and so on.

Does the Taoiseach envisage a situation where, despite the categorisation of different degrees in the medical area, there is an opportunity for both Governments to again prove peace works and that with co-operation on a small island such as this and in a small geographical area, one could have specialist centres of excellence, North and South, paying real attention to specific areas, whether cardiac, cancer, orthopaedics, etc? Does the Taoiseach envisage a situation where much closer co-operation, North and South, in the medical area could be brought about? Is it his intention to raise that matter when he next meets the parties and the new British Prime Minister, whoever that might be?

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