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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If the bag of feed is delayed, it is gone.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Perhaps the expert, Dr. Lorraine Nolan, could speak about this issue.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: What is coming from the west coast of the United Kingdom?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Has there been any move towards Irish production of these perishable medicinal products?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If there is a hard Brexit and no agreement, will all bets be off? Are we expecting a tariff to be placed on the 15% of products coming into the country? Are we expecting anything like that to happen? As for the portion we cannot make ourselves, or for which we do not have a ready-made equivalent, what can be done? Can we be held to ransom as a state in being charged exorbitant amounts for...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: They are the radioisotopes for use in radiology. I do not know much about that area. What will happen if we do not sort out the East Midlands issue?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: What headroom do we have? Would we have a ten to 12 week supply of product or how is it brought in?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If things were to go pear-shaped, something we do not expect to happen, how long would we have?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: On counterfeit medicines, are people being opportunistic when everybody else is concerned about maintaining the integrity of the supply chain? Has the criminal element been considered in possible breakdowns in regulation or the status quo? Could there be opportunistic individuals who would release large batches of counterfeit medicines onto the market? Has this element been considered in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: It is in everybody’s interests.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: On medical devices, it is true to say everybody is piggy-backing on the United Kingdom’s regulation, but if there is a hard Brexit, we will be in a position where we will no longer be able to do that. There has historically been a high dependene on the United Kingdom. In May 2020 things are due to change. Therefore, we really have only a nine-month period in which something could go...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Considering the need to keep their products selling, it is in their interest to co-operate.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: This country is not stockpiling medicines because it has the headroom of normal supply. The headroom is up to 12 weeks and that can be replenished in the intervening period. The only issue is devices and that is a historical issue because of the piggybacking on the UK regulations. We are stockpiling surgical packs and so forth to some extent, but that is because of the device element and...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I do not want the wrong message to emerge from this meeting.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: In terms of devices, for insulin patients the needles for testing blood and the lancet are classed as devices. Are we okay for them for diabetes testing?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Regarding the 2020 May regulations for devices - this has nothing to do with Brexit - is it envisaged that the HPRA and the EMA will take on the 39 categories? It is not really an authorised product and I am aware the HPRA is helping out in this regard now, but I assume it will not be subsumed into the HPRA's work.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Brexit Preparations Update: Discussion (25 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Finally, if there is a hard Brexit and there is a particular drug, not a device but a drug, that is produced in the UK, it can no longer come seamlessly into our country. The batch will have to be tested for release onto the European market. Have we the qualified persons in place here? I believe we discussed that to some extent on the last occasion.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: 335. To ask the Minister for Health the weighting percentages to be used as part of the upcoming HSE FreeStyle Libre review decision making process that will be given to criteria (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38592/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (24 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: 336. To ask the Minister for Health if the reimbursement dataset will specifically cover only current HSE-funded users of the FreeStyle Libre device; and if the health technology assessment group review will compare just total blood glucose strip usage spend year on year. [38593/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Maternity Benefit (24 Sep 2019)
Kate O'Connell: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the status of a maternity payment for a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38793/19]