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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It would own-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Was the €2.9 million estimate for 2014 the amount of money the board had to spend? How could something end up being €5 million when it was €2.9 million? Inflation is understandable but if I was the company who had got that tender I would be delighted I had received a tender for €2.9 million and could potentially get €5 million. I would think this is a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Essentially, what Mr. Walsh is saying is that what was planned for in 2014 has evolved. The board has taken on more roles and the system has to be bigger to cope with the board's extended roles.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: There is no big scandal involved with the €5 million. I would like to make a point about holding oral hearings in local authority buildings instead of hotels. A point was made earlier about the interface there. Consider a private citizen who may be in conflict with the local authority. If I was being brought into a local authority office, I would feel that everyone there might be...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We will get over that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is the word I was trying to think of, but I could not. There is an expectation of neutrality by the citizen that he or she is not landed into a State office.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Will the witnesses talk us through the CPOs and the vacant properties? I did not really understand it until I read a bit about it. I understand that there has been some success in Louth and in Waterford. Will the witnesses talk me through how it happens? When somebody tells the Department there is a boarded-up house in the middle of wherever and nobody has been in it for a long time, what...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Let us say that someone leaves the country in a hurry, for legitimate reasons, and the building is boarded up, and then they find out the building has been compulsorily purchased. Can that person appeal to An Bord Pleanála and say he or she wants it, and can the process be halted?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The purpose is to bring properties into use and not to seize properties.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The problem is that we have not dealt with the women thing.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Not yet.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank all of the witnesses for coming in this morning and for the work that they do, which is to safeguard public health and to ensure that standards are correct. On the reasons-for-leaving element of the survey, was it a tick box or was it a fill-it-in-as one-desires section on the form? How were the data analysed? Was there a written explanation as to why they left or was it a choice...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It was mentioned that of the 23,000 practitioners registered, the level of complaints has remained static over the past three years. Do we have a larger picture, because the shedding of consultants from the Irish system started in 2008 to 2009, roughly speaking? Have we a picture of the past ten years rather than the past three years? What I am trying to get at is that as many consultants...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The research gives no figures then for professional misconduct for-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Those would be interesting to see if - there is no "if" about it, it is a fact - where doctors left, there was a gap then in the service and if there was a subsequent rise in-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am trying to find out about the impact on patients. The State Claims Agency last year paid out €3 billion, which I believe is the figure reported to the Committee of Public Accounts, 90% of which was medical-based. Without using the phrase "dumbing down" but if there is a reduction in standards, is that having a subsequent impact on State claims? Last week, the committee...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I have heard anecdotally that the concentration of this 108 cohort is in specific regional hospitals. I did not mention them last week and I will not mention them this week. I assume the council has looked at this. If 20 of the 108 are in a particular hospital, surely it is an issue of concern. Whose job is it to track the impact on patient outcomes?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Has there been a spike in complaints that we can directly correlate to the 108? Is there a subsequent impact on patient care from the cohort that is not at the highest standard?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: How is that going? If there were 108, are there 106 now? Is it going in the right direction? Is the training group having any impact on the level of quality?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will go back to the point made by Senator Colm Burke because I want to make sure I understand it. The graph shows a 20% increase in doctors registered but there is a reduced number of new entrants. Does this mean people who qualify are leaving without ever going on the register? Is that the point? What is the mix? Where are they coming from? If they do not come from new entrants are...