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Cork’s TD Michael Collins said the Taoiseach “laughed” and “smiled” while asking about the continuation of cataract procedures in the North after Brexit.
Starting in January 2021, the EU Cross-Border initiative that makes it easier for patients from the Republic to receive treatment in the North will end. The government is working on legislation that will allow some procedures, such as cancer treatment and heart surgeries, to continue across the border.
Collins says he has been reliably informed that hip and cataract surgeries are not included in the upcoming legislation.
Talking to Patricia Messinger about C103’s , the independent TD said: “I looked up three times during my three minutes and each time the Taoiseach laughed.
“This is no laughing matter. He made a game of it.”
Micheál Martin brought up the subject of the “waterfall bus” Tuesday night, saying that he was “reliably informed that MP Healy-Rae approached people outside of Mass to say ‘I can get you on the bus. I can. get them a cataract. ‘” ‘. “
Mr. Healy-Rae reacted angrily and told the Taoiseach that his comments were “a disgrace”.
“You’re alone at the bottom of the barrel coming out with that kind of statement. Police in a bit of Taoiseach. Damn, it’s horrible to say, if someone who belongs to you goes blind, you wouldn’t like it. “
This morning, Michael Collins said that Mr. Martin “was trying to say that we were looking for political gains and that taxpayers were paying for them. Of course, we know that taxpayers are paying for them.”
“The message I wanted from Michaél Martin was ‘we’re looking into it, it’s important, we’re going to do something about it’, but this situation will continue until the Cork Falls Theater opens.”
The theater is estimated to open in two years.
Collins told C103: “People cannot go blind in that time and if they do, it is on Taoiseach Michaél Martin’s watch.”
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