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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not as clear because we are giving different things.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The spend of the State Claims Agency has rapidly increased. Is that due to us having a more litigious society or is it a result of recruitment issues in the health service? We have heard at length from various people, including doctors and people in the HSE, that back in the day, when a post was advertised, there would have been six or seven eminent people applying for it. However, in the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: So the lawyers are getting more money rather than-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The money is going there.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: When the HSE looks at the catastrophic claims, does it divide it down into speciality? Is it divided into psychiatric and maternity? I imagine our instances of catastrophic maternity cases are higher than in most countries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Mr. Mulvany is not saying there is not a link. On the demographic pressures, which Deputy Durkan brought up, it always seems to be a surprise that people are living longer. The inference is they are costing us a load of money and it is all their fault when we are the ones who kept them alive. Has someone done a quantitative analysis on this? Take the example of a 65 year old who is given...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am not saying it either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am saying demographic pressures are constantly thrown out as a reason.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Overspend on the Health Budget 2018: Discussion (24 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Surely it would be balanced from a budgetary point of view by people living healthier lifestyles and perhaps not turning up as young with type 2 diabetes. It will balance. Keeping people alive longer is important but so is people not entering the health service and requiring treatment. Over time it should balance.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Like women.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I agree with Deputy Alan Kelly that all financial aspects of this matter, including tender documents and contracts, could be dealt with at this committee and that issues of governance and accountability could be dealt with through the health committee. Like Deputy Alan Kelly, I am a member of both committees. There are serious issues with the tender documents. As Deputy Alan Kelly said,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
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Chapter 6: Lease of Offices at Miesian Plaza (11 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: We would be more surprised if there was a gender balance.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for attending the committee and for the work they did on this report. Over the summer I was conscious that people were saying it was a very good report. It is a very well-written report. Any of us who were involved in the discussions at the Committee on Health and the Committee of Public Accounts wonder how the witnesses got so much information out of them when we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Am I right in saying that the people who were the actual QA team were not the people who went over?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It was a team within.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The quality assurance committee went to the laboratories in the States. When it came home, was it blissfully unaware that the laboratories it had just audited were sending slides to other laboratories?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It was stated in the contracts that the laboratories had to be International Organisation for Standardisation, ISO, accredited. There is a table on page 60 of the report which shows the difference in ISO and College of American Pathologists, CAP, accreditation standards. To me, there is a distinct difference between the two. Our contract asked for ISO accredited laboratories, but what we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The simple fact of the matter is that what was sought in the contract was not the standard on the other side.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Not only that, nobody told us. Nobody wrote an email stating CervicalCheck wanted ISO accreditation but that the laboratory was CAP accredited and whether that would do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Discussion (10 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: We are not in the United States.