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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I refer to work days lost. Most people in that position who have, as Dr. McKenna described, constant bleeding and are anaemic would be affected at work and would have sick days and so on. There is a significant Exchequer issue when 30,000 women-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Minor depends-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Somebody mentioned a fivefold or sixfold increase in referral to colposcopy. I imagine there is a certain amount of stress among general practitioners and doctors to make sure that nothing is missed. Has work been done to develop care pathways for primary care practitioners so that we do not end up with a sixfold increase in unnecessary colposcopy?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is there a strategic programme here or is it ad hoc?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am a little uncomfortable with this new quality assurance, QA, lead, a consultant-level position. We had many QA people already in cervical services. Do they still exist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I got that. We had a QA team and none of them were consultants. What were they? Were they doctors or from industry?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Could I have a breakdown of the QA people from before? Were they doctors, pharmacists or laboratory people? We had no consultant-level pathologist ever assessing the contracts to see if they were the right standard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. Scally was very clear. From memory, I think it was page 52 of the report. A box on one of those pages shows that the contract was for ISO accreditation. A particular laboratory said not to mind the ISO and that the American college of whoever says it is doing everything fine. Contracts have been awarded and been operational and these laboratories have been looking at smears. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We were taking the standards from the NHS and applying them to the contracts that we were giving to other countries. When this person was comparing it with what the standard was supposed to be, he or she missed that Quest Laboratories did not have the accreditation that the contract stated it should have.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Nobody looked at that before Dr. Scally.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: From memory, how many quality assurance people were working on CervicalCheck? Was it six, ten or 12?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is more like a canyon rather than a gap not to have somebody who is an expert on this.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We had a great rate with the girls, we went back and then we came up again. Are we mitigating against the same thing happening again?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will only be a minute. I am just trying to get my head around this issue this morning. I thank the witnesses for coming in to speak with us. I refer to the Norcontel report. Do the witnesses think it is right? Would they argue that it is not correct? My understanding from what has been said here this morning is that the Norcontel report basically said not to fragment the market and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am only after seeing all of this now this morning but the 50% reduction seems like a very round figure. Can BT match that price or is that commercially sensitive? Is that the price of it? How much is it per metre and how does it compare? Obviously the comparisons are other countries with different landscapes, different poles and different everything but all things considered, what is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will later but not now.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Before this morning there was an even bigger gulf.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The Minister said that it will be. He referred it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: What is BT's regulator called? Who does it provide to every year?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion
BT Ireland (14 Feb 2019)

Kate O'Connell: On the EU state aid rules where the MANs were not to be run by the operator where this all started out, if audits were carried out every year like with the 999 emergency service, would that annual audit throw up something like this new relationship that has emerged since?