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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It was mentioned that the contracting and tendering side was changing. That is retrospective governance again. Was Dr. Scally shocked by what he found? I think he was. Dr. Denton was definitely shocked. These labs were not even known about. Has Dr. Scally ever seen the like?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Well-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Supplementary Report of Scoping Inquiry into CervicalCheck Programme: Discussion (4 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I do not expect Dr. Scally to answer this question. If what was going on in CervicalCheck has been replicated across the wider HSE, we would have a massive problem, would we not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I will be as quick as possible.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Yes. The same as previous contributors. I welcome the chairman. It is nice to have a Sir at the committee; it will be the first and last time. I am happy, I think, about the re-establishment of the board. My only concerns are that there may be another layer in place. A narrative exists among the public, where true or not, that the HSE is layer upon layer of administration. I refer to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: He is obsessed with cutting out steps and processes and I look forward to that being reflected in the health service. Many of us sat on the Sláintecare committee. Core to the plan is access to healthcare based on need not ability to pay. We saw so much evidence of the drag and inequality in the service. I assume that the chairman worked in the NHS during the introduction of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I worked in the NHS in the south of England when I was qualifying as a pharmacist when Agenda for Change was being introduced. It had its problems and did not completely work out but there are lessons from Agenda for Change that can be applied to the system here. One of the benefits of coming late to the table is being able to do things correctly and learning from other jurisdictions'...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am only four minutes in. There are ten-minute slots.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: On contingency, last year the Termination of Pregnancy Act was passed. Hopefully free contraception will be coming down the track. Those should be once-off payments on the balance sheet. I refer to the chairman's history at Macmillan. I am greatly concerned about the privatisation of certain segments of our health service, including primary care centres. Does the chairman see his...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Health Service Executive: Chairman (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I wish the chairman the best of luck.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This is the group of women on the cancer registry list who chose not to engage. Is there any research as to why their decision was made? There must have been some reason for not engaging with the RCOG process. Perhaps I have missed something but I do not understand why one in five of the total number would go to another jurisdiction. That would seem to create inequality in terms of...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Perhaps someone could give us advice on this. I would have thought it would be complicated to link a recurrence of cancer later in life specifically to an incident ten years previously. Where does the line get drawn? Otherwise the tribunal could go on for 60 or 100 years. The hepatitis C tribunal is slightly different because the infection and transmission was very much quantifiable and...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We are focusing on the reoccurrence of cancer. What if there is someone in this group who has not yet tried to have a family, who has stage 1 cancer, and who then decides to have a family? We are saying that the only bad thing that can happen is a reoccurrence of cancer where someone would not be able to have children or where there could be difficulties with births due to damage of the...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The people at the centre of this process are the women involved. We must be on their side. We do not want to be in a position where the laboratories will have extensive legal teams, with no issues of cost, leading to a David versus Goliath scenario with women who have already been through an awful lot and who will have to discuss very personal matters being met by a wall of very experienced...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from Deputy Bríd Smith's question, is it possible for a lab to turn up at the tribunal for my hearing, let us say, but not for Bríd's hearing? Can they be à la cartewith their clients? It might suit lab A to turn up for my hearing but it might not want anything to do with another woman's case. Can the labs pick and choose the cases for which they turn up?

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: With the women it is different.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is in terms of compellability if they are outside the jurisdiction. There are limitations in that regard.

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If lab A decides it will turn up for my hearing but not for another person's hearing, and it has a contract still in existence and perhaps we have got extra capacity from it, how does that stand in terms of our dealing with it as a company?

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I suggest we finish the first round of questions before we take a break. Only two members wishing to contribute - Deputy Burke and I - remain.

Public Accounts Committee: Health Service Executive Financial Statements 2018
2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health
Chapter 16 - Control of Private Patient Activity in Acute Public Hospitals (27 Jun 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I wish to follow up on Deputy Burke's line of questioning. If a woman attending an obstetrician in public hospital is in mid-examination and there is a crisis in a theatre, the obstetrician will run out the door. I have been in that position a number of times. I imagine while they are running out the door and getting to the theatre to save somebody's life it is very difficult to quantify...