Europe Day: Statements
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-09
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Stephen Donnelly (FF), Wicklow

The HSE operates the EU Treatment Abroad Scheme (TAS), for persons entitled under EU Regulation 883/04. The TAS is a consultant-led scheme and allows for an Ireland-based public consultant to refer a public patient who is normally resident in Ireland for treatment in the public healthcare system of another EU member state, the UK or Switzerland.
As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.
Last month marked the 25th anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement, which stands as a successful blueprint for peacemaking, a framework for resolving even the most difficult of conflicts. However, 25 years on, we are again faced with an impasse. We are challenged to recapture the spirit and determination of 1998 and to make progress happen. Sinn Féin is committed to seeing the assembly restored. We believe that a united Ireland would be good not only for Ireland but for Europe, standing as indisputable testimony that we can overcome any conflict. To do this, we need a citizens' assembly to allow for the airing of all views and all ideas on what a united Ireland will look like. We must talk about and plan for a united Ireland.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-09