Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The directive became redundant because the UK left the European Union and the Government, through the Minister of Health, then initiated a process whereby we would fund and support operations through a North-South arrangement in lieu of the directive. I will check the specifics of the cost and so on, but my understanding was there was a relationship between the HSE and the hospitals concerned in the North. I will check that out.

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