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Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Deputy Donnelly made a very good point about the framing and wording of these amendments. They are framed in such a way that allows us to be asked how we could be against them. When I returned home last night, as if I had not had enough of this subject after yesterday's proceedings, I thought about the amendment relating to "dignified disposal". The wording of that amendment was carefully...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The conversation on this amendment has included a reference to the belief that abortion is the ending of a human life and that people will be forced to facilitate the ending of a life. We have come back to the use of inflammatory language. Perhaps that is the view, but it is not really the place we are in right now. Previously, people spoke about reasons or offering clarity in reference to...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Deputy McGrath is not going to make the news. We are an hour out.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: If there was no vote called on section 24 we would be quick.

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I know what Deputy Donnelly is trying to do and his intentions are very good. In respect of the phrase "all maternity" services, people engage in many things during pregnancy that we could never expect the State to cover, such as yoga and well-being classes. The term "all maternity services" would cover a very broad church. On the drugs issue, Deputy Donnelly mentioned a particular drug,...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (Resumed) (8 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Chairman for chairing the meetings for the past three days and compliment him on his management of the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (21 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if assistive technology will be provided to a person (details supplied). [48444/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Mr. Hennessy referred to the possibility of legislation for biosimilars similar to that for generics 15 years ago. That needs to be examined further than at a meeting of a health committee. That is not substitutable and I cannot imagine a situation where we would introduce legislation to force a consultant dealing with a complex condition to change medication based on a direction by the...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank all of the witnesses for coming. I will focus on where we are as opposed to the tragedy of people being infected with blood products. The United Nations has a target to eliminate hepatitis C by 2030. Our aim is do so by 2026. I am concerned that the low hanging fruit have been targeted in the initial phases, by which I mean people who are more likely to adhere to a medical regime...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not ideal having a population carrying hepatitis C in an enclosed communal setting and not knowing about it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: There are discrepancies in price.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: When the rebate comes back, where does it go? Does it go into the general hospital budget or back to this particular basket of €30 million?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Does this include the hospital money or is that simply the cost for the drugs?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Getting the drug to treat hepatitis was a phenomenal achievement but I compare it with cervical cancer. Australia is heading towards eradicating cervical cancer within ten years. This started in 2004 and we are now in 2018. While the HSE has made good steps, it has been with the low-hanging fruit and good advances in drug treatment. I do not see the same people being successful in...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Why have only ten of the 36 recommendations been taken on board when the drug has been on the market for three years now? The recommendations are not overly complicated and do not ask for too much. Why is there inertia in this area?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I understand that and the reason for the issue when the report came out before the drug was licensed, but all the same principles of education and prevention still exist. I do not buy the idea that the report is out-of-date, in the sense that it was published before the drug was available, because one could have layered the treatment on top of the existing content and added it as another...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Do we need an updated strategy? Do we get rid of the current strategy?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Three months.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I asked that question too and it was not answered.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Kate O'Connell: In light of all that has been discussed, I want to make sure that I have not got this wrong. We do not know how many people have hepatitis or how many more new cases there are, so we do not know if we are running at a standstill. There is no database but there are data-sharing issues which the witnesses hope to have dealt with by the first quarter of 2019. As one of my colleagues said,...