Results 421-440 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I was not asking about consequences regarding consultants' hours. That was separate.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Consultants Contract: Discussion (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Is the lack of specialists down to people leaving the country and moving elsewhere or is it that we are not providing adequate training in this country?

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am going to start by reading Lorraine's story in her words. It was first published almost 20 years ago at the turn of the millennium.I was 34 when I was widowed. My husband died in an accident. I had four children, from fourteen to four years of age. It was a terrible time and I never thought I’d get through it - the older kids took it very hard. My family were a great support,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I have a couple of questions. Regarding medicines and dual registration products, there is an arrangement between some English-speaking countries to have shared patient information leaflets and packaging on some medicines. The UK tends to be the biggest buyer in these markets. It tends to be the UK, Malta and Ireland that share licences on products such as Ventolin inhalers. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Is there any indication that the UK wants its own regulations in that regard? It would make sense if the UK was trying to carve out its identity in some way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The net problem is that, if the UK deviates, the NICE guidelines will be no good to us anymore because they will not adhere to what we believe in.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Where are they? If they want to speak, they can be here to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise for being in and out between this meeting and the meeting of the justice committee. I also apologise if I ask questions which have already been asked. I know from Twitter that certain things have been asked. If I duplicate questions I ask the witnesses to let me know and I will look back later. This morning, there was an article in the Irish Mirrorby Mikie O'Loughlin about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is here in front of me. It came to my email and I have a printed copy of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The Vice Chairman has dealt with the initial aspects of it. What are the actual rules? There must be a list of rules somewhere on when people can use headed paper and when then cannot. Do we have any news on the roll-out of the male HPV vaccine? Do we have any new data on the uptake? We were up at 61% recently. Yesterday in the Chamber, Deputy Clare Daly raised the case of the lady...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister for his answers. With regard to the HPV vaccine, I welcome the fact that HIQA is due to report by the autumn. Some 30,000 boys will not be vaccinated this year, because of the loss. I could hazard a guess that it will probably be September 2019 before we seek to start vaccinating. Perhaps I am wrong; perhaps it will be six months earlier. While we are on a roll here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: With regard to the Versatis patch, over 90% of applications are being rejected on appeal. That is what I am told at home. The issue is that it has been licensed for use to treat post-shingles pain. In the past five years I have seen us go from having one box on the shelf to 20. It was being used for literally everything and there is a huge cost. I think the Minister said it was the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Dr. Wren for the report, which I read last night. It is obvious it was written by a general practitioner, GP. None of us can deny that the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, had a very serious impact on this sector over ten years, as they did on the pharmacy sector and on services for patients, which we have all tried to mitigate as much as possible....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not mine. While I understand the rationale behind the proposal to have a community pharmacist in a GP practice, a practice in which there are four GPs would cater for approximately 8,000 people and for a community pharmacist employed for one day a week to trawl through the medication histories of those patients would not be practical. It is not a solution. A more appropriate...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Play and Recreation Policies (15 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 36. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to get primary school children living healthier and more active lives; if he is planning new initiatives in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7527/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Funding (15 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 86. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way in which sports clubs can add value to private donations received; if a step by step guide to the process can be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7528/18]

Topical Issue Debate: Retail Sector (21 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Yes it is still Waltons.

Topical Issue Debate: Retail Sector (21 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I will not do that today, but with an extra minute I might. I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I thank the Minister of State at the Department of Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Deputy John Halligan, for coming in to take this Topical Issue, which concerns the closure of Waltons music shop in Dublin city centre and the moving of its business to its Blanchardstown branch, having first...