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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Can they take X-rays in Norway?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: However, fundamentally, Mr. Brown has drawn the comparison between Norway and here. Are chiropractors in Norway allowed to have X-ray units in their practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not really a good comparison, then, with all due respect. Of the few countries, is there any other jurisdiction that has no school of chiropractors and in which chiropractors are allowed to take X-rays in their practices?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Mr. Brown referred to either three or four a minute ago that had no undergraduate chiropractic degree or whatever. In any of those cases, are they allowed to take X-rays in their private clinics?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: If I may, Chairman, someone referred to the fact that 18 X-ray licences were issued to chiropractors a few years ago. There are 130 chiropractors in the country, 110 of whom are affiliated to the CAI. There were 18 who had X-ray machines and now there are 11. Is that due to the cost of maintaining such units or to the fact that the private operators with diagnostic stand-alone setups might...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Do the witnesses have any figures on the number of X-rays per head of population seen by chiropractors in Ireland versus the number seen in other countries? If chiropractors have 10,000 patients, are they all getting three X-rays in a lifetime? How does that compare internationally? Is there any indication that there is an overuse of X-ray or any sort of imaging in the Irish context? I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Council Directive 2013/59/EURATOM: Chiropractic Association of Ireland (25 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: No data at all - so we do not know if it is true or not. Do the witnesses have any data on it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I support the comments made by Deputy Cassells on rates. I am aware from my time on Dublin City Council that the over-reliance on commercial rates to fund the city's business has always been an issue. There has been a lack of understanding of the pressures on small fledgling businesses. Many of the vacant units in our large urban centres have been taken over by large multinationals rather...

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am sure the projected growth rate for next year was mentioned at the outset of the meeting when I was not here. What are we expecting next year?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: In Mr. McCarthy's opinion, is it a sustainable level of growth? Does he have concerns about it?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: On the reasons for growth, before he left Deputy David Cullinane was talking about GNI. Companies with their intellectual rights here, whatever way one wants to term them where their transactions are made and VAT is gathered in other places, form part of the GNI. However, the GNI* does not include them.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Other than on a graph, do they have any net effect on the economy in real money in the till terms?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Am I correct in saying they are regulated here? There is regulation here because they are based here.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Are they costing us anything? That is really what I am getting at.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: How?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: How are they making a positive impact? Forgive me if I do not get it because, like Deputy David Cullinane, I am a layperson, too. How are they having a positive effect on the economy if there is no money in the till as a result?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Therefore, they are employing people.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: In the case of companies that have no sister firm, they are contributing nothing to the till.

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Are we doing anything about this net loss to the economy?

Public Accounts Committee: Chapter 1 - Exchequer Financial Outturn for 2016
Chapter 2 - Government Debt
Chapter 24 - Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (19 Apr 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is almost as if they will die off naturally, for want of a better word.