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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluation of the Use of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (21 Mar 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I will. I could spend all day talking about this. I thank the witnesses for coming in. First, regarding formularies, I am sure that everyone on the committee is aware of it but I am a pharmacist by profession. When I worked in the UK approximately 15 years ago, formulary prescribing was standard across the NHS. I was surprised when I came back to Ireland that this was not the case. For...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluation of the Use of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (21 Mar 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Yes, I do. Do the witnesses have any views on the use of combo drugs like Vimovo that are coming onto the market? Two molecules are combined by a company to reduce the drug from two to one. However, the two components are far cheaper individually. We have seen an emergence of that kind of smartness, as I would consider it, on the part of drug companies, where two off-patent drugs are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluation of the Use of Prescription Drugs: Discussion (21 Mar 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from Deputy O'Reilly's comments, we heard at the Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution from the Irish Family Planning Association that 17% of women outside the medical card cohort found the price of contraceptives, including consultation fees and prescriptions, to be an issue. Further to this, we learned at some stage on that committee of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scrutiny of EU Legislative Proposals on Health Technology Assessment (28 Mar 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I welcome the sharing of clinical information and joint clinical assessment, leading to efficiency. In the case of a recent drug, Orkambi, as far as I know it did not get through the normal approval process and there was an intervention after the assessment. I believe the approval of the drug was a combination of the process along with Ireland's unique relationship with the cystic fibrosis...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (28 Mar 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Deputy Bernard Durkan for allowing me to contribute before him. I have to leave shortly. I thank the Minister of State for attending this morning. The Minister of State spoke about online therapies. This is interesting. The Minister of State might follow up on what occurs in the other jurisdictions where these therapies are practised. How are conditions triaged? In recent...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am sorry for coming in and out. I hope I will not repeat some of the questions asked before. If I do, let me know. Productivity of the workforce was mentioned, as was primary care service being GP-heavy. The consultants referred to single GPs operating on their own. When it comes to the geographical situation in Ireland, this is an issue because we have remote parts with low...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: In a minute. Many of us present sat on that committee and put a great deal of time into ways to try to deal with as many services in the primary care setting as possible, which is the whole point of Sláintecare. Is the report by PA Consulting assuming that everything will stay static, apart from demographics, or are the consultants taking into account that slowly but surely clients...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The comment by Mr. MacGinnis is unhelpful, but it was useful for him to point out that he is not a clinician. I have an issue, however, which I imagine is shared by members. The suggestion is that a consultant, who has a duty of care to a patient in an acute bed, should be worried about what is happening downstairs. To my mind that is not their job. The duty of care is to the patient in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Senator Conway-Walsh referred to the National Health Service, NHS, and the provision of free GP care. The witnesses, with their experience, might outline the current waiting times to see a GP in the UK. I worked in the NHS about 15 years ago. The system has changed completely, to my mind. I was there at the time of A Vision for Change. I am led to believe that people can be waiting up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is unacceptable as far as I am concerned that it is being thrown out there-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: -----constantly every week.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting (18 Apr 2018)

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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I support the comments made by Deputy Cassells on rates. I am aware from my time on Dublin City Council that the over-reliance on commercial rates to fund the city's business has always been an issue. There has been a lack of understanding of the pressures on small fledgling businesses. Many of the vacant units in our large urban centres have been taken over by large multinationals rather...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am sure the projected growth rate for next year was mentioned at the outset of the meeting when I was not here. What are we expecting next year?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: In Mr. McCarthy's opinion, is it a sustainable level of growth? Does he have concerns about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: On the reasons for growth, before he left Deputy David Cullinane was talking about GNI. Companies with their intellectual rights here, whatever way one wants to term them where their transactions are made and VAT is gathered in other places, form part of the GNI. However, the GNI* does not include them.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Other than on a graph, do they have any net effect on the economy in real money in the till terms?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Am I correct in saying they are regulated here? There is regulation here because they are based here.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Are they costing us anything? That is really what I am getting at.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: How?