Healthcare Policy
Dail Éireann — 2026-03-05
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Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (FG), Dún Laoghaire

If I were to come back and give the Deputy the specific reasons there might be a concern about one clinic, she might take a different view. Perhaps we might have that conversation privately, because I suspect she does not have the complete information that I have, which is not a fair balance. We might perhaps speak about that separately.
She is correct that in the past there was a reluctance to refer patients abroad because clinicians did not know where they were referring them to. That is a cultural issue as much as anything else but we have overcome that now. I would not, though, classify all clinicians in that space.

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Sitting date: 2026-03-05