Seán Sherlock (Cork East, Labour)
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461. To ask the Minister for Health if the treatment abroad scheme is in operation with the advent of Covid-19; and if there are any restrictions in place of same. [26573/21]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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The HSE continues to operate the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS). 

In the context of the Covid-19 Pandemic, persons seeking to utilise the Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS), should review and adhere to the public health guidance and restrictions in place at any point in time.  The current guidance, S.I. No. 267 of 2021, provides that a person may not leave his or her place of residence to go to an airport or port for the purpose of leaving the State without reasonable excuse. Such reasonable excuse includes to attend a medical or dental appointment, or accompany, to such an appointment, any other person residing with the person, or a vulnerable person, and to seek essential medical, health or dental assistance for the person, for any other person residing with the person, or for a vulnerable person.