Results 3,241-3,260 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: It was about the USC and the PRSI.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. Ginnell is of the view that it is a good idea to replenish the pot that was depleted. Is is correct to infer that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: As it happens, I mostly have ladies working for me on a regular 35-hour week or a 40-hour week. I also have a number of students and part-time workers. The issue is not that I cannot guarantee them hours, it is that they do not want them. They want to be off three weeks before and three weeks after their examinations. Essentially, they are on zero-hour contracts because they want them...
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: I think I saw it in here or I saw something about it somewhere else.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: The issue for people was that they would have certainty about their hours.
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: I believe it was Mr. Ginnell who spoke about employer's PRSI being low relative to other European countries. The tax credit for the self-employed was increased in the budget by €500 to €950. I think the figure is €1,650 for employees. How does Ireland compare relative to other European countries on that?
- Committee on Budgetary Oversight: Post-Budget Analysis: European Anti Poverty Network (22 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: Yes.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: On the type of staff that certain hospitals attract, I assume Professor Broe meant that one wants to be working at the cutting edge of one's profession if one is ambitious and wants a career. I am assuming that a progressive medical person would prefer to be working at a level 4 hospital where there would be a massive throughput of cases and where he or she would be exposed to all they...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: Do the other two groups think that would suit them better? Why has this not happened with the other groups? When I hear terms such as "administrative function", I think layer of management and that bothers me to some extent. Can anyone give me any indication as to why there is resistance to move from an administrative role into a "just-sorting-it-all-out" role? What is the delay? Once...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: If legislation was passed would there be any scope to redefine the borders? In other words, if the administrative board became a statutory board would there be scope to redefine the borders in terms of alignment of the community health organisations with the hospital groups?
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: Okay.
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Hospital Groups (16 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: Do any of the witnesses believe that the lack of legislation on hospital groups is delaying progress? Have the hospital groups reached a roadblock that is preventing progress? With regard to the hospital groups, is it essential to have an academic university and research base attached to each group? I have a major concern that the hospital groups are not aligned with community health...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee this morning. First, to follow on from one of Senator Burke's questions and Mr. Woods's response regarding the 125 nurses and midwives that have been put in place, does that mean they have been recruited? What does "put in place" mean? Are those 125 personnel now working in the service? The Minister for health promotion is not here...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Community and Social Care Support: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: I thank Dr. McDaid for her presentation. Regarding the integration of services for mental and physical health, would it be Dr. McDaid's considered or informed opinion that there is segregation; that acute hospital care is one service, with social care and mental health care being dealt with by a separate wing of the health services? Does she believe that the root of the problem probably...
- Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Community and Social Care Support: Discussion (9 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: I imagine that members will return.
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Estimates Process (8 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: 287. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will increase the budget of Foras na Gaeilge in line with the investment plan submitted to her by 80 Irish language groups, which would provide opportunities to local Irish language groups in Dublin Bay South and in other constituencies to implement language plans and develop Irish language hubs in their areas. [33636/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Estimates Process (8 Nov 2016)
Kate O'Connell: 288. To ask the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her views on the fact that, if the Foras na Gaeilge budget, which has been reduced by nearly 30% since 2008, is not increased, local Irish language groups in areas such as Dublin Bay South will not be able to access supports to develop the Irish language in their areas and to attain the new status arising from the Gaeltacht Act of...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming here this morning. I commend their dedication to this project. I am coming at this issue from a political viewpoint but I also had the misfortune of my first child - I had all my children in the Coombe hospital - having to be transferred to Crumlin hospital for immediate treatment after birth. The issue involved here highlights the challenge one has to deal...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Kate O'Connell: So, there is nothing wrong with the Connolly site.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Paediatric Hospital: Discussion (27 Oct 2016)
Kate O'Connell: There are no top three weaknesses.