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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The IWA paid in advance.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Will it be at a loss for the remaining six years?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is still money. In terms of the LEADER grant, I assume that when the IWA leased the building in 1997 the electrics, plumbing and everything else were fine because it would not have leased the building otherwise. Is there anything in the lease stipulating that responsibility rests with the owner of the building?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: From what I have heard today, it started as a funding issue, the IWA cannot afford to keep the place going, the Department is not giving the money and the hotel model is the alternative. With Ms Keogh's experience, and she sits as the chair, does she think the option here is better? Clearly, the users of the service do not think this is a better option. Does Ms Keogh personally think it is...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Excuse me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: "Yes" or "No" will do.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If the IWA was to choose one-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I have worked with many people with disabilities over the years, for example, a pharmacist and a family member with disabilities. I do not want to class everybody as the same but there is a familiarity with buildings. For example, we bring my sister-in-law to the same place every year on holidays because it is familiar to her, she knows the people and she would go berserk if we brought her...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: As CEO, does Ms Keogh not think it would be better if the IWA had the money to keep Cuisle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Keogh said a hotel is not for everybody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If a hotel is not for everybody, and if Cuisle closes, there will be people who will not have a place that is suitable for them to go on holidays.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There is the same argument of familiarity.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Following on from the comments of Deputy O'Reilly, I note Mr. Conlon's comments on the expansion of the role of pharmacists throughout the health service but we are talking about contraception here today. While the idea of lengthening the prescription time is very welcome, I have never understood, as a pharmacist, why a prescription would not be for a year, especially where the long-term use...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There is no arguing with it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I will stop Mr. Conlon there because we had this before about ten years ago with the use of the flu vaccination. There was massive pushback from the medical profession to the effect that pharmacists should not be injecting vaccines. When I was studying at undergraduate level 20 years ago, it was never assumed that would be part of a pharmacist's role but we managed it, we upskilled and we...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. Conlon said "seem to promote". What sort of quantitative analysis do we have of that? Is it just the view of the working group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It has suggested it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: We have loads of examples of continuity of care within the pharmacy sector. In the high tech scheme, for example, there is a patient care fee every month where the patient is assigned to a pharmacy at the point of prescription by a consultant and goes to that same pharmacy every month. There is a mechanism for people to engage on a continuous basis with their community pharmacist even if...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but as Dr. Short said, the choice element is fundamental to a woman's healthcare. While the evidence all suggests that the lower the user input, the more efficacious a product is and that we have far more success with long-acting reversible contraceptives, the fact is, as all the experts here know, at different stages in their lives women might choose an oral contraceptive pill at the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Working Group on Access to Contraception: Discussion (27 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I am not suggesting that.