75A.—(1) The Minister may, with the consent of the Minister for Finance and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform, make such order or orders as he or she considers necessary to carry out any reciprocal or other arrangements made with, or under the proper authority of, the Government of the United Kingdom in respect of health services that will apply between the State and the United Kingdom after the end of the transition period.

(2) Without prejudice to the generality of subsection (1), an order under that subsection may specify—

(a) the category or categories of persons to whom the order applies, and

(b) the category or categories of health services to which the order applies.

(3) When making an order under subsection (1), the Minister shall have regard to the following:

(a) the policies and objectives of the Government regarding their shared commitment with the Government of the United Kingdom to the protection of the Common Travel Area and associated reciprocal rights and privileges as a legitimate and fundamental public policy, and recognising healthcare arrangements as a component of this;

(b) the policies and objectives of the Government to reaffirm the Common Travel Area arrangements and the associated reciprocal rights and privileges enjoyed by Irish and British citizens in each other’s state, in particular the right for citizens residing in either state to access emergency, routine and planned publicly funded health services in each other’s state, on the same basis as citizens of that state;

(c) the policies and objectives of the Government regarding their shared commitment with the Government of the United Kingdom that residents of the State and the United Kingdom should enjoy ease of access to healthcare in the other state;

(d) the policies and objectives of the Government to enable arrangements in relation to health services to be implemented between the State and the United Kingdom after the end of the transition period;

(e) the desirability, in the public interest, of maintaining access to health services in the United Kingdom after the end of the transition period, in particular the desirability of maintaining access to medically necessary health services;

(f) the need to ensure the most beneficial, effective and efficient use of resources;

(g) the policies and objectives of the Government to protect and improve the health and welfare of the public.

(4) In this section, "transition period" means the transition period provided in Article 126 of the Agreement on the Withdrawal of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland from the European Union and the European Atomic Agency Community³.]