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

Kate O'Connell: I am sorry, I have a final question. The first thing in this contract, which I spoke about when Deputy O'Reilly was out and about and which she followed up on, was ISO accreditation. However, also within the contract - it may have been at clause 39, I cannot remember off the top of my head - was that this facility for subcontracting out and giving away slides was included in case one's...

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

Kate O'Connell: If I may contribute briefly, Australia has HPV testing. It has been rolled out very successfully and it is in line to eradicate cervical cancer within the next ten years. How quickly was this testing rolled out? In an international context, what is the quickest the change from screening to HPV testing ever been done? How fast can we do it, if we do not let the laboratory that did it...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Do I have until the end of debate, until 5 p.m.?

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (4 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Every time a speaker has contributed here today he or she has said, as has been said many times, that this is an historic day. I could not help but grin every time because it meant so much each time it was said. It is a long road that has no turning. There are many people in here who never thought we would get here. We are on the cusp of legislating for free, safe and legal bodily...

Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Professor Boyle was asked a question earlier about building up capital reserves and Teagasc sold assets in 2016. Going forward, how sustainable is it to sell assets to fund daily operations? He said that "this fund will be ring-fenced and only used as we need it". That seems to me to be contradictory so perhaps Professor Boyle might clarify what he meant by that. On the wage bill where...

Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is like a bridging loan.

Public Accounts Committee: Teagasc Financial Statements 2017 (4 Oct 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Professor Boyle.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The important thing is that the Bill should be fit for purpose. I am concerned about the emergence of a two-tier reporting system. I refer to page 8. I do not understand why there is not one system of logging errors. Going back to the Scally report, it reminds me of where there was a cancer registry and the CervicalCheck list. I wonder why we would have more than one list for logging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am concerned that the audit data will not be subject to freedom of information requests or that it would be usable in court. I understand entirely where we are coming from but I am concerned that the focus is on the professional not on the patient. If everything is all open and accountable why would the information not be admissible in court? It is holding onto the past rather than...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I cannot understand the period of seven days. In the practical sense, I have this vision of a hospital situation where nobody dies but errors are made over a day, and then it is day six, and that one had better sit down at one's desk and fill in all one's errors. Then, a bundle of error pages gets handed to the next person, who puts them into the computer. I see that as a list that is not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: In the hospital setting currently, must a consultant who is employed by a hospital group sign up to the terms and conditions of that hospital group? Is there not scope on an individual basis, when it comes to a hospital group or a trust, that the doctor would be told that if they were coming to work there, part of the contract is that they must sign up to the internal auditing process? Is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: On the one list, why are there multiple lists? An explanatory note in the general scheme of Patient Safety Bill 2018, states, "Through Ministerial regulations, those "reportable incidents" which must be reported to the relevant reporting authority [...]" and it refers to a "detailed listing". I am uncomfortable with two lists. Who is the person who decides what is reportable and what is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: One database?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I do not think we have seen any evidence yet today that there is anything untoward about that €317,000. The previous speaker's reference to a "slush fund" is regrettable and, perhaps, slightly inflammatory.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The use of that language in the same sentence is deliberately inflammatory. That cannot be denied. It was deliberate.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (25 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: 275. To ask the Minister for Health the length of time persons are waiting on average for drugs to be approved for public funding (details supplied); and the processes and procedures being undertaken to expedite access for persons with MS to new and effective treatments in a timely fashion. [38381/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for giving their time to come in to advise us in our important task regarding legislating to do what the people of Ireland asked us to do in May. On the delivering service by January, I am concerned that this may not be possible. There is almost an assumption that these are new women who did not exist before, that the ten or 12 each day who will land out of the sky...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Perhaps one of the experts can tell us if there have been any negative effects as a result of a three day waiting period. The eighth amendment committee spent a lot of time making it very clear to the people of Ireland what we were putting before them. We put a three day cooling off period before them. Any change to that at this stage would have to be considered very deeply. A mobile...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not in any way a suitable way to provide women's healthcare. I have a vision of a big van. Maybe I am wrong but that is not the way forward. It cannot be how we look at it. Australia and Scotland have remote areas and they manage it. We should be able to manage it. We discussed the ring-fencing of funding in a maternity strategy where the constant drag of women's health and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Clinical Guidelines for the Introduction of Abortion Services: Discussion (19 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I genuinely was not suggesting it was just a little bit but that it was not a huge burden on the system.