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Fisheries: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Given that Ireland is a maritime nation, our waters are a strategic asset. Our fishing communities are a living heritage and our policy choices now will decide whether the next generation will be able to make a livelihood from the sea. I welcome today’s debate and the Government’s continued investment in the sector. Since 2020, over €180 million has been invested in...

Men's Health: Statements (22 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome today’s debate on men’s health. Ireland was the first country in the world to adopt a national men’s health policy in 2009 and we have followed through with action plans in 2017 and again in 2024. We have seen progress, with the number of premature deaths down, stronger partnerships across voluntary, academic and health sectors and a far better evidence base...

Finance Bill 2025: Second Stage (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: With all the shouting and roaring, I thought there was an election happening this week. This debate involves examining the Finance Bill and many of those concerns have already been raised but are being rehashed here today. I welcome the opportunity to examine the Finance Bill, which gives effect to the budget’s targeted tax measures and supports for businesses, jobs and housing...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: On behalf of the committee, I extend a warm welcome to Professor Deirdre Heenan from Ulster University and Professor Anne Matthews from Dublin City University. You are both very welcome and are not strangers to the Houses. I know you have been here before, but it is a pleasure to have you here at this committee. The format of the meeting is that I will invite Professor Heenan and Professor...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Professor Heenan. I now call Professor Matthews to make her opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank both witnesses for their opening statements. We will now turn to questions. The first speaker is Ms Pat Cullen, whom I understand is online.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Professor Heenan very much. I thank Ms Cullen for her questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I am not sure whether Mr. Mallaghan or Mr. Maskey, who are online, want to ask questions. There is a slot here for the MPs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Deputy, time. There are other people to come in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Fair point. We will bring in others because people are waiting. I thank the Deputy. She can come back in the second round. I call Senator Blaney.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: I thank both witnesses for their statements and their passion in this area. It comes across. To Professor Heenan directly, on the strand two piece you mentioned earlier and the North-South Ministerial Council, outside of those meetings, are you ultimately saying there is no other work taking place at all with regard to research or collaboration between the health systems in the two...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Not on the macro level.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Okay. Between the NHS and the HSE, there is no-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: You also referred, in one of your answers to one of the committee members, to the fact there was a strategy published in the North with no reference at all to the southern health system. That is obviously a very bad place to start with regard to a strategy for a decade ahead or however long that strategy looks at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: When was that published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Okay. It was the height of the pandemic as well, I suppose, so there are learnings.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Professor Matthews, you referred to the data issue. As you well know, there are issues with sharing data within the HSE, never mind with anybody else. That is a problem. I am sure it might be an issue in the North as well but we are looking at the digitisation of records and patient numbers, etc. I take the point - I think it was Professor Heenan who made it - around AI and how we can...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: You mentioned politics in your statement as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: Even in your own statement, Professor Matthews, you referred to cross-Border healthcare and the successes we have seen already from collaboration and genuinely working together. There have been benefits to that, but you also alluded to the fact that there was a real focus on Border communities as opposed to that macro piece of genuine collaboration between both jurisdictions. On the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Healthcare Provision: Discussion (21 Oct 2025)

Cormac Devlin: You might be waiting.