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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Is there any evidence to show that a decision was made to go with the certified analytics professional, CAP, model rather than the International Organization for Standardization, ISO, model? Did someone not actually read them? Does Dr. Scally have any evidence?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: These laboratories were ISO accredited.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am sorry, I have a final question. The first thing in this contract, which I spoke about when Deputy O'Reilly was out and about and which she followed up on, was ISO accreditation. However, also within the contract - it may have been at clause 39, I cannot remember off the top of my head - was that this facility for subcontracting out and giving away slides was included in case one's...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: If I may contribute briefly, Australia has HPV testing. It has been rolled out very successfully and it is in line to eradicate cervical cancer within the next ten years. How quickly was this testing rolled out? In an international context, what is the quickest the change from screening to HPV testing ever been done? How fast can we do it, if we do not let the laboratory that did it...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I agree with Deputy Alan Kelly that all financial aspects of this matter, including tender documents and contracts, could be dealt with at this committee and that issues of governance and accountability could be dealt with through the health committee. Like Deputy Alan Kelly, I am a member of both committees. There are serious issues with the tender documents. As Deputy Alan Kelly said,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: We would be more surprised if there was a gender balance.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Like women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Who?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: When Deputy Durkan was asking about the price of the orphan or high-tech drugs, Mr. Mulvany spoke of the robust assessment that happens, I assume through the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics. That is all good. Am I correct in saying that there is scope for a Minister to override the economic decision of that group? If the quality-adjusted life year, QALY, number comes back as not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The sums.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: What I am getting at is that in the UK, where there is perhaps pressure or the QALY does not come in as being approved, they often allow 18 months or two years of treatment period with a new drug and for the patient to be assessed thereafter so that one is not merely giving it and letting it go continuously. If it is a high-price drug, it is reassessed to see what impact it is having on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: We are here discussing income of the HSE and it seems reasonable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I know all this but my question was specific. Mr. Mulvany knows my question. When the HSE initiates somebody, a child or adult, on an expensive high-tech or orphan drug on which perhaps the sum does not add up but a decision is made to give it, has the HSE any way of pulling back from that decision if the therapy is not giving bang for buck?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am aware that in the UK, one way they deal with it is by saying a patient can have it but there should be an outcome as per the trials. They will give it but if a patient is not getting the results, they will state they cannot spend £100,000 a month on injections or whatever.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I brought it up here some time ago. Perhaps someone asked this question while I was absent but do we know where we stand with the €17 billion spend on health? What is our income from private? I remember from Sláintecare it was about €5 billion. Is it still €5 billion that private is funding into public? What is the total?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is half a billion euro.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: How do we stand now in terms of the OECD? Are we the highest spend? I think we were the second or third last year. Are we top of the list now per capita?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not as clear because we are giving different things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The spend of the State Claims Agency has rapidly increased. Is that due to us having a more litigious society or is it a result of recruitment issues in the health service? We have heard at length from various people, including doctors and people in the HSE, that back in the day, when a post was advertised, there would have been six or seven eminent people applying for it. However, in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: So the lawyers are getting more money rather than-----