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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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Returning to the contract, which is for 25 years, earlier this morning it was noted that the company has not been formed yet, which is normal enough. It will be an Irish-domiciled company subject to Irish corporate rules. The Comptroller and Auditor General referenced that the value in this new company obviously will be the State contract. We definitely are protected as to the sell-off...

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is covered, in any event.

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: On the issue of wireless, it is not as secure as other methods. Can wireless data be intercepted? Is there an element of that?

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Mr. Neary is, no doubt, dreaming of the private sector.

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Would Mr. Neary agree it is more open to attack done than high-speed fibre?

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: One would be obliged to cut it and put it in somewhere else. Technically, can satellites intercept wireless?

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Maybe we can have another meeting on that. My final question is to Mr. Griffin. I refer to the idea of the industry having the expertise and the Department not having it. No offence is intended to anybody in saying that, as all of the witnesses clearly know what they are talking about. On the telecoms agency idea Mr. Griffin mentioned, the image of a HSE part two occurred briefly. We...

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Mr. Griffin is only really suggesting a small unit.

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We will not hear things such as one group being in charge of policy and another being in charge of delivery.

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 (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Mr. Griffin.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (2 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he is taking to address the concerns of owners of indoor play centres with regard to the unsustainable increase in insurance costs which is causing many of these businesses to close down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15480/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for attending. I add my voice to the tributes to Laura Brennan. What was so significant was her age. When people of my age tell teenagers what to do they may not listen but Ms Brennan's age and youth, which were the great tragedy of it all, had such an impact. It is not long ago that a few of us who, like the HSE and CervicalCheck, were battling to get the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If my figures are correct, the number of women who presented increased from 280,000 in 2017 to 370,000 in 2018, an increase of 90,000 women. The backlog is 79,500 or the guts of 80,000. In that case, is the extra capacity in the system sufficient for only 10,500 additional presentations? According to the opening statement, the backlog is 79,500, which suggests the HSE has found additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I assume these numbers are true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: They are taken from the Mr. McCallion's opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In Dr. Scally's report we discovered that some of the labs in the US were not ISO accredited but were accredited to the American College. Is the HSE still using labs that do not have the accreditation that was in the contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: My understanding is that he wanted clarification on whether they were equal. I still do not have clarification and I do not think this committee has received clarification that the self-granted American standard is the same as what we requested in the contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: He is happy enough for the contracts to be renewed but perhaps not to create new contracts if the accreditation was not equal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Laboratories with what accreditation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: With existing accreditation.