My question relates to EU legislation and in particular the EU cross-border health care directive which should have been transposed into Irish law by 25 October 2013. The directive provides that an individual who is on an excessively long waiting list can go abroad for medical treatment, with any difference in cost to be borne by the individual's own State. When will that legislation be transposed?

My understanding is that it is to be transposed by secondary legislation and I do not have a brief on that here. I only have the briefs on primary legislation and suggest that Deputy Lawlor raises the matter with the Minister for Health.