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Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Is it three minutes each? Is that what we agreed before? I cannot remember.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: The first question for the CER is on efficiencies and this two-year review. When it is quantifying the amount of money that is being saved, is it looking at what is suffered as result of that saving or just that it expects this efficiency due to economies of scale and such issues? In its submission, I was quite concerned at the mention of the metering process. How does the CER consider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I expect a bit of respect when I am speaking. Why do they think it appropriate to abandon a project that is 75% finished? Do the witnesses have any data from the Industrial Development Authority, IDA, on companies, either indigenous or foreign, that have not set up in Ireland because of the lack of water security to the mid-2020s? The agrifood business and others need a lot of water....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: If I may, I apologise - I probably phrased the question incorrectly at the start. What Dr. McGowan is saying is that when he talks about stopping the metering programme, this concerns areas where there are challenges with metering. He is not referring to metering overall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I would like Dr. McGowan to clarify his statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Parking, rather than-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It is a question of parking rather than abandoning it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: How can one determine excessive use without metering? Is that based on the percentage of homes already metered and the extrapolation of that data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. McGowan is saying one can determine excessive use by examining the data on 58% of homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Such as?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Perhaps, to put it in plain language, that means Dr. McGowan would say somebody with two children would use this, as opposed to putting a meter at the door.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: So, guessing.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: My first question relates to page 3 and the reference to creating an offence in relation to the buying and selling of personal health information by those who obtain it in the course of employment, business or professional capacity. I will outline my experience of a GMS doctor with a medical card list, even though the list system has been deregulated in recent years. Let us say that a GP has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: A couple of patients may be seen at the HIV services in St. James's Hospital but that would have nothing to do with the community setting. They do not want people in the community setting to know anything about their HIV status. With stigma, how do we protect the patient's right to keep that as their own private business and limit the amount of people who can access such data? Sharing data...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: My question on GPs was specifically in regard to profiting. The question of consent was more to do with who accesses people's information. One cannot just accept that everybody within the health service will adhere to patient confidentiality. There is a course there for patients.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: Thank you.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: In real life I have had an experience of a patient who attends the HIV services in St. James's Hospital. They were supplied with their drugs there and I had no idea the man was HIV positive. He deals with me for other aspects of his life. It is none of my business, it just came up one day. My point, however, is that he genuinely set about not wanting anyone in the community setting to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: It is to save Mr. Quinn from having to repeat himself. I may come back in afterwards. We have discussed here before exactly what Deputy Kelleher raises. The buck stops with the Irish Medical Council or the pharmaceutical regulator. The professional has to answer to his or her body. We were discussing open disclosure here last week or the week before and the same issue arose about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: Yes. May I come in now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: That is so unlikely.