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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: They are worried.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is the witness saying that as the consultant has left and gone to private practice the dermatologist has to continue the care of those patients, which can often be very complicated cases? All of the workload would then be channelled into the one consultant.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Let us go back to where it all started with the then Minister, Senator Reilly. I am actually a big fan of the Senator. As Deputy Durkan stated, the country was on its knees. We all accept that. It was not just the Judiciary and the doctors, as pharmacists took a similar cut. It had a massive impact on the sector. That took the form of a reduced pay bill, but the long-term impact has...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is a runaway train at this stage. I do not mean to be dramatic, but I am concerned. I have read much of the material the witnesses have supplied. We are clearly not breeding a new cohort of consultants, given that we are not training them. If we are not paying them, they will stay abroad or go to the private sector. Senator Burke often speaks about the differential in the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Why is that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: That seems kind of obvious. I am not being smart, but one cannot run a service without doctors. He was just stating the obvious. How is the HSE going to address the constant issue of the manager being over the medical person?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am not suggesting they do not.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I worked as a cleaner in a hospital.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand all the way down through the system works.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Health Sector: Discussion (9 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am not suggesting otherwise for one minute.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in this morning. I am familiar with a number of them from the BusConnects meetings. How many members sit on the board? There are two who are directors and on the board but how many are on the board in total?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Four are women.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: So, that is the basic 33%. We had that here last week again. In terms of directors, is Ms Graham the only director that is female?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Of the executive directors.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: How many executive directors are there?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: That is 50%, which is an improvement. How has it improved overall? I assume there were no women previously.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: We are going backwards.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Maybe we will have addressed that by the time we meet next year. Mr. L'Estrange mentioned the lease earlier. I want to get the timeline right following on from Deputy Catherine Murphy's questions. The NTA took over the taxi regulator in what year?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of the National Transport Authority (10 Oct 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The NTA was formed in 2009. The taxi regulator had a historic lease on a building for 35 years with an upward-only rent, which was standard at the time. Did the NTA challenge the lease? Clearly, it did not contain a break clause or the NTA would have gone for it, I assume. Did the NTA challenge the lease legally or seek to buy it out or make a settlement with the person who owned the building?