CIVIL Service papers suggest Brexit could cause a further crisis in the NHS, Sinn Féin has claimed.
The party said yesterday it had received more than 30 papers on how the UK's exit from the European Union next year will affect Northern Ireland.
Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson yesterday called on civil servants to release the papers.
She said the assessments address issues including the border, market access and the availability of health, agri-food and manufacturing workers after Brexit.
Ms Anderson said it had been "difficult to quantify" how Brexit will affect the north because the civil service had not released the papers.
"Despite initial civil service claims that it had no assessments, we have now received more than 30 papers on the impact of Brexit which it had shared with the British government," she said.
"This information had to be dragged out of the civil service and it is clear that it had no intention of publishing these important assessments on key issues on the border, market access, the customs union and single market and the availability of labour for key sectors such as health, agri-food and manufacturing post-Brexit.
"It paints a bleak picture and shows that Brexit will have a hugely detrimental impact of these key sectors, jeopardising future growth and potentially creating a real crisis in our health service."
