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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Dr. Wren for the report, which I read last night. It is obvious it was written by a general practitioner, GP. None of us can deny that the financial emergency measures in the public interest, FEMPI, had a very serious impact on this sector over ten years, as they did on the pharmacy sector and on services for patients, which we have all tried to mitigate as much as possible....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of the Sláintecare Report (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is not mine. While I understand the rationale behind the proposal to have a community pharmacist in a GP practice, a practice in which there are four GPs would cater for approximately 8,000 people and for a community pharmacist employed for one day a week to trawl through the medication histories of those patients would not be practical. It is not a solution. A more appropriate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise for being in and out between this meeting and the meeting of the justice committee. I also apologise if I ask questions which have already been asked. I know from Twitter that certain things have been asked. If I duplicate questions I ask the witnesses to let me know and I will look back later. This morning, there was an article in the Irish Mirrorby Mikie O'Loughlin about the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: It is here in front of me. It came to my email and I have a printed copy of it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The Vice Chairman has dealt with the initial aspects of it. What are the actual rules? There must be a list of rules somewhere on when people can use headed paper and when then cannot. Do we have any news on the roll-out of the male HPV vaccine? Do we have any new data on the uptake? We were up at 61% recently. Yesterday in the Chamber, Deputy Clare Daly raised the case of the lady...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Vice Chairman.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister for his answers. With regard to the HPV vaccine, I welcome the fact that HIQA is due to report by the autumn. Some 30,000 boys will not be vaccinated this year, because of the loss. I could hazard a guess that it will probably be September 2019 before we seek to start vaccinating. Perhaps I am wrong; perhaps it will be six months earlier. While we are on a roll here...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: With regard to the Versatis patch, over 90% of applications are being rejected on appeal. That is what I am told at home. The issue is that it has been licensed for use to treat post-shingles pain. In the past five years I have seen us go from having one box on the shelf to 20. It was being used for literally everything and there is a huge cost. I think the Minister said it was the...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (Resumed) (7 Feb 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Yes.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (25 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Where are they? If they want to speak, they can be here to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I have a couple of questions. Regarding medicines and dual registration products, there is an arrangement between some English-speaking countries to have shared patient information leaflets and packaging on some medicines. The UK tends to be the biggest buyer in these markets. It tends to be the UK, Malta and Ireland that share licences on products such as Ventolin inhalers. I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: Is there any indication that the UK wants its own regulations in that regard? It would make sense if the UK was trying to carve out its identity in some way.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implications for Health Sector of United Kingdom's Withdrawal from the EU (Resumed): Department of Health (24 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: The net problem is that, if the UK deviates, the NICE guidelines will be no good to us anymore because they will not adhere to what we believe in.

Report of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Statements (Resumed) (18 Jan 2018)

Kate O'Connell: I am going to start by reading Lorraine's story in her words. It was first published almost 20 years ago at the turn of the millennium.I was 34 when I was widowed. My husband died in an accident. I had four children, from fourteen to four years of age. It was a terrible time and I never thought I’d get through it - the older kids took it very hard. My family were a great support,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I only have an issue with the first part of the motion and the words: "having regard to the decision of the Committee not to retain Article 40.3.3°," which we voted on some weeks ago. I suggest that we simplify Deputy Jan O'Sullivan's motion and say that the committee recommends the repeal simpliciteras outlined in the legal advice received by the committee and not refer to our previous...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Although I have already spoken, I would like to make the point that if the metric we are going to use to measure women's health is how many we let die, we are in a bad situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I move motion 3:That the Committee recommend that termination of pregnancy be lawful where the life or health of the woman is at risk and that a distinction should not be drawn between the physical and mental health of the woman. Provision for gestational time limits for the termination of pregnancies be guided by the best available medical evidence and be provided for in legislation –...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Motion 28 is in my name. I am fully supportive of the motion tabled by Deputies Kelleher and Lisa Chambers and Senator Ned O'Sullivan but I have a couple of issues with it on a technical level. The intention is to have a GP-led service. What about a case where somebody in a rural area does not want the local GP to know and presents at a Dublin maternity hospital? Could we amend the motion...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I just want to make sure there is no ambiguity here. I was going to table an amendment to the motion but we can discuss it here. A person could be contraindicated to use termination tablets even at five weeks. The motion covers both surgical and medical.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution: Completion of the Examination of the Report and Recommendations of the Citizens' Assembly and Preparation of a Draft Report in accordance with the Terms of Reference of the Joint Committee (13 Dec 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It leaves it to the doctor.