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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 628. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount the company has been paid; the services the contracts were for; and the number of public sector and-or publicly funded catering facilities being run by the company. [50369/18]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount the company has been paid; the services the contracts were for; and the number of public sector and-or publicly funded catering facilities being run by the company. [50362/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 700. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount the company has been paid; the services the contracts were for; and the number of public sector and-or publicly funded catering facilities being run by the company. [50366/18]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 733. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of contracts and-or tenders that have been awarded to a company (details supplied); the value of these contracts, that is, the amount the company has been paid; the services the contracts were for; and the number of public sector and-or publicly funded catering facilities being run by the company. [50359/18]

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Thanks for explaining that.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: A miracle.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Reference has been made to abortion regret and the Women Hurt group. It was offered a slot at the Citizens' Assembly but allowed an American pro-life group to take its place. The Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, of which I was a member and all meetings of which I attended, heard from an expert on abortion regret, Dr. Abigail Aiken. There is no point having a...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Of course, we will listen to the voices of those opposed to this legislation. I have listened to the voices of such Members ad nauseam. However, we won. If the other side gets the support of 51% or more of the electorate, it will get its way, but we won in May and we will get our way. The Members may use their allotted time of seven minutes and two minutes to discuss published data,...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (5 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The Minister has quite usefully read the pharmacists' guidelines from the Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland. Like Deputy Brassil, I am a registered pharmacist. I would like to explain the normal procedures for GPs getting medication into their surgeries. It is normally done by means of stock-order dispensing from a pharmacy of the GP's choice. This should not arise, in the sense that the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2018
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (5 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Following the comments on haemochromatosis, Warfarin pilot testing was done in the community. In other countries, that is done in the community. Generally the people on Warfarin are older and are more susceptible to illness. According to the latest figures, people aged over 70 were the main unscheduled presentations in emergency departments. If older people who are susceptible to illness...

Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: First Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I move:That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide, in the interests of the common good, for the prohibition of certain advertisements relating to the treatment of cancer and to provide for related matters. This Bill seeks to provide greater protection for patients who receive cancer diagnoses and are then inundated in this most vulnerable moment with communications...

Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: First Stage (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise for missing some of the meeting. I am concerned about the differential in the wages. Am I right in saying the pay restoration amounts to about a €5,000 to €6,000 difference in a carer working in a HSE hospital and someone working outside of a hospital?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: There is a differential of €5,500 to €6,000 between the same person who started off in the HSE in 2010 or 2011 at a €25,000 salary rate and a person working in the family caring sector, is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I assume then that people are leaving the family caring sector and going into the HSE or is there a drag between both sectors because I know that Mr. Dunne spoke about labour shortages? When it comes to the competency versus QQI level 5 that Mr. Dunne mentioned, what do carers have in other countries? Are they doing this HSE style competency or is it a QQI level 5? I refer to under...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Is that a case of them going to the HSE or is someone spotting them and headhunting them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Does Mr. Dunne have evidence of that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am not being smart and I am on Mr. Dunne's side in this, but if he comes in here and he tells us there is a QQI level 5 and a HSE competency, it is reasonable to anticipate that I would ask what other countries do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Please do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Home Care Services: Discussion (12 Dec 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It takes six to eight weeks for approval and then it could be another chunk of time?