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

Kate O'Connell: I get that Professor Flannelly is not here, but the Minister is also not here. Another comment made earlier was that the clinical advice was not taken by the Minister and that this would harm women's health and undermine the screening programme. That is a fair charge coming out of this committee this morning because the sole focus here is getting this sorted for the future. We must move...

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

Kate O'Connell: Regarding information for women, the CervicalCheck leaflet was presented to the committee a year ago. Has any work been done on that? In the aftermath of this, many GPs did not understand or know the limitations of the test at 70% or 80%. There was the concern that they did not relay that to their patients in the correct way. I was not aware of the limitations. The leaflet presented to...

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

Kate O'Connell: My understanding is that the trigger for audit was having cancer. Then we were missing a chunk of people on the national cancer registry but we are sorting that out. On the one hand, we have people talking about populism and scaremongering and then contributing to it. I feel strongly about dealing with this situation in order that, ultimately, lives are saved and outcomes are better for...

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

Kate O'Connell: With ISO accreditation and the American labs, are there internal audit processes and quality assurance procedures to ensure they fall within the correct parameters?

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

Kate O'Connell: Regarding the halting or pausing of the audit process, is it correct that it is not true to say that people have been left out or there has been a shutdown? We do not want the message going out that, for some reason, there are people not getting treatment because of the audit process status.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossessions (9 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to discuss this matter. It concerns two citizens of Ireland, Patrick Halpin and Anne Keane of Aberdeen Lodge, and their young family. They are running a modest business and were encouraged by so-called experts to expand it some years ago. It went wrong for them, as it did for so many others. Their expansion failed and they ended up...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossessions (9 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister of State. The key consideration for me and I assume for Deputy Durkan is fairness and the humanity of the situation. The Minister of State referenced the €25 million debt, but he failed to mention what was realised when the seized asset was sold and how much of the €25 million had been paid off. We are Teachtaí Dála, messengers of the people....

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister for coming before us. I will start with the national children's hospital. I have not read the entire report yet but something in it under governance neatly sums it all up. The report stated that: The level of trust that the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) placed on the National Paediatric Hospital (NPH) executive and design team gave rise to...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The Minister mentioned children going to school unvaccinated, but what about an unvaccinated child going into a hospital? In Crumlin hospital there are kids going around wearing masks. There seems to be a level of unawareness of how serious measles can be. There was an outbreak of mumps in some of our universities recently. The Minister briefly mentioned the Assisted Human Reproduction...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is there an answer about the accountability of the quantity surveyors or the professionals?

Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: Second Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This is important legislation that I am proud to sponsor and delighted to have the opportunity to progress. It has the support of the Irish Cancer Society, the Irish Association for Nurses in Oncology, the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Furthermore, it has the backing of many cancer survivors, brave patient advocates who have battled...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Professor Fitzpatrick for attending the meeting today. Our paths have crossed and I alerted the committee that we know each other to an extent. I thank Professor Fitzpatrick for the time he served as master of the Coombe hospital. It is something people do and it is not often recognised. It is a very important role and I have told the health committee previously that I am a big...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: One could argue that it is not a world class hospital if the maternity hospital is not on site, in terms of the spend. If we do not put the maternity hospital there, it will not tick the boxes we set out to tick.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This might go outside the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts, but it is Thursday afternoon. I am also a member of the health committee. We have the maternity strategy and I am aware that Professor Fitzpatrick and many of his colleagues had an input into that. One of the criticisms of the maternity strategy was that it separated obstetrics and gynaecology. It is the separation of...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Hypothetically speaking, if the space was available, would it be better to leave gynaecology and obstetrics together?

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the professor for his time. I apologise, but I have to leave. I have business in the Chamber.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates (17 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am fully aware as a ratepayer and business owner that revaluation has been happening over a number of years. In many cases, it has added fairness to existing rates but it has come to my attention recently, and the case is not based on my constituency, that the new way of evaluating rates for petrol stations and service stations, which is based on their turnover rather than the previous...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates (17 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am fully aware of what the Minister of State said in his response. I know the process and how rates valuations work. Anyone who pays rates knows all of what the Minister of State said in his response. A briefing session for the man in Cahir is not much good. It will not give him the €80,000 he needs to pay his rates bill. The Valuation Office says the valuation is "reflective"....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Commercial Rates (17 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Like the set aside.

Public Accounts Committee: Environmental Protection Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (18 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for their attendance. The EPA's remit involves the monitoring of intensive agriculture practices and makes specific mention of pigs and chickens. What sort of data is the EPA collecting? Many of the antibiotics that go into pig and chicken feeds are powdered. Is the EPA looking at distribution in the local air or at the waste produced by pigs and chickens? Is that...