Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----pressures at home, I do not accept that. I accept there are areas where the health services need to deliver to address waiting lists. Regarding cataracts, one of the ways in which we can ensure that people get the treatment they need quickly while the health service is being improved and reformed is to undertake operations in Northern Ireland in order that people can get the health care they need. It is not an ideal setting. We would obviously like to do that locally, and in time I think that will be possible. However, in the meantime I think it is good-----

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