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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: He is obsessed with cutting out steps and processes and I look forward to that being reflected in the health service. Many of us sat on the Sláintecare committee. Core to the plan is access to healthcare based on need not ability to pay. We saw so much evidence of the drag and inequality in the service. I assume that the chairman worked in the NHS during the introduction of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I worked in the NHS in the south of England when I was qualifying as a pharmacist when Agenda for Change was being introduced. It had its problems and did not completely work out but there are lessons from Agenda for Change that can be applied to the system here. One of the benefits of coming late to the table is being able to do things correctly and learning from other jurisdictions'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am only four minutes in. There are ten-minute slots.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: On contingency, last year the Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed. Hopefully free contraception will be coming down the track. Those should be once-off payments on the balance sheet. I refer to the chairman's history at Macmillan. I am greatly concerned about the privatisation of certain segments of our health service, including primary care centres. Does the chairman see his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I wish the chairman the best of luck.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This is the group of women on the cancer registry list who chose not to engage. Is there any research as to why their decision was made? There must have been some reason for not engaging with the RCOG process. Perhaps I have missed something but I do not understand why one in five of the total number would go to another jurisdiction. That would seem to create inequality in terms of...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Perhaps someone could give us advice on this. I would have thought it would be complicated to link a recurrence of cancer later in life specifically to an incident ten years previously. Where does the line get drawn? Otherwise the tribunal could go on for 60 or 100 years. The hepatitis C tribunal is slightly different because the infection and transmission was very much quantifiable and...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We are focusing on the reoccurrence of cancer. What if there is someone in this group who has not yet tried to have a family, who has stage 1 cancer, and who then decides to have a family? We are saying that the only bad thing that can happen is a reoccurrence of cancer where someone would not be able to have children or where there could be difficulties with births due to damage of the...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The people at the centre of this process are the women involved. We must be on their side. We do not want to be in a position where the laboratories will have extensive legal teams, with no issues of cost, leading to a David versus Goliath scenario with women who have already been through an awful lot and who will have to discuss very personal matters being met by a wall of very experienced...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from Deputy Bríd Smith's question, is it possible for a lab to turn up at the tribunal for my hearing, let us say, but not for Bríd's hearing? Can they be à la cartewith their clients? It might suit lab A to turn up for my hearing but it might not want anything to do with another woman's case. Can the labs pick and choose the cases for which they turn up?

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: With the women it is different.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is in terms of compellability if they are outside the jurisdiction. There are limitations in that regard.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If lab A decides it will turn up for my hearing but not for another person's hearing, and it has a contract still in existence and perhaps we have got extra capacity from it, how does that stand in terms of our dealing with it as a company?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: On what page is the chart to which the Chairman referred which indicates the investment in Bank of Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If we look at this example, there is almost an inference that the return received represented good value or was a good idea. When did we give it the money during the bail-out? Was it eight or ten years ago? There is a surplus of €200 million after an eight or ten-year investment period. It does not seem like good value for money or a good return for the country. The Comptroller and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It always happens, the cycle.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Okay. If we are in this precarious position, which we clearly are as we are carrying that mountain of debt, and if there is a hard Brexit, we really could be in the depths of a recession worse than we were in ten years ago. Would that be true to say? If there is a 100% chance today and then we have a likely contraction of 10%, that does not seem ideal. Would it be true to say we need to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If the interest rates had not been so favourable, we would be in a far more precarious position, would we not?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is purely interest rates.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 21 - Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency Financial Statements 2018 (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We have been lucky.