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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Locums who are not up to scratch.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Therefore, no matter what anyone says to us, it is a false economy.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: In light of recent news, there is quite a common thread.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that. The witness need not have explained that. It seems a bit strange, in a population the size of the city of Manchester, that one would have CAAC and two separated streams of recruitment for the same job. We are the size of the United States of America.The witness spoke about what he is going to set, which is aspirational. We have all had enough of aspirational plans....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Is it the same thing where the reaction is "oh no, we are missing a consultant, we had better go and get one". Is that the sort of planning we are dealing with here?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Mannion is beside the witness----=
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that but the witness just said there was no competition for many posts so should it not happen quickly?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: All of these answers would be fine if the HSE was born yesterday but it was not born yesterday, it was born ten years ago. This appears one of the most bizarre way and a way in which I would not run my corner shop.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Does the witness attribute these additional 300 staff to the implementation of Professor Keane's report that is now in circulation for 14 months?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Would it have happened anyway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: If we can leave the questions for the moment, I wish to deal with the reference of the witness to other countries. Do other countries have a plan in place? When we are making comparisons in international or global terms, do other countries plan for maternity leave, retirement and unplanned absences? One cannot plan for every eventuality, for someone who might be killed on the way to work...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: By whom is the witness advised?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: The relevant clinical directors of the group?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: It is the organisation?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: Why would they want to earn a third less?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I am being reasonable here. Why would anyone want to convert and earn a third less?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Medical Council Specialist Register: Discussion (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: The witness is contesting what-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: There is an issue with the sound.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. Mr. O'Brien, initially there was a two-year contract for the outsourcing of cervical smears, which took place under his watch in 2008. Was the two-year contract renewed or was it audited in order for the State to continue the contract? Mr. O'Brien was in charge at the time. In 2008, the decision was made by the then Minister to send the smears...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)
Kate O'Connell: No, I am not finished. Mr. O'Brien said at the end of his statement that this matter was a personal blow to him. I would like to make it very clear to you, Mr. O'Brien, that this is not about you. You are the last person that this is about. It is about the women of Ireland who have, yet again, been let down by the health service and by you because you are at the top and you are in charge....