Results 961-980 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell
- 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: When giving us those figures, can the HSE let me know the range of private companies involved in the 100? I would like the names of the companies.
- 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: When did this practice start? It may have been going on forever but I was unaware of it. On the leasing ones, when were those arrangements made and what are the contract arrangements? Is it a 25-year lease? Is it a ten-year lease? Perhaps we could have detail on that. It is of interest to the public. When one looks at a building and sees "HSE" over the door, either as a client or as a...
- 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: It seems like we are back to somebody's point about the saving the home help system provides to acute services. If the system that has been created by whoever we want to blame for it has led to staff perhaps having the ideal qualifications and ticking the boxes in terms of employment but not being on the ground keeping an eye on things, and if that is having a negative impact on outcomes for...
- 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: Is that €202 million every year or over five years?
- 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: There is great data from the PCRS. If one gives somebody something, it is difficult to take it off them. My question is, if new data emerges that shows that the efficacy is less than what it was at the start, is there any process to pull back on a drug that may have been approved for whatever other reasons it was approved? Once the horse is out, it is gone.
- 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: Obviously.
- 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 get that. Mr. Breslin knows I get that.
- 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: If decisions are made in knee-jerk situations or based on small volumes of trial information, and then significant trial data show that all is not what it appeared on day one, nothing can be done about it. The cheque is written.
- 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 thank Mr. Breslin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I will follow on from Senator Lombard's question. In terms of the retendering, the gap-funding model was the issue from the start, and if there were to be a retendering it would have to be under a totally different set-up.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Let us say it was five years, as per the view from the KPMG witness. If the project was parked and restarted with a different funding model that was suitable to Eir's requirements as a company, what would prevent Eir's parent company from saying, three years into the process, that it should forget it? Eir was bought in April and its new French owner commented that its focus is on urban...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but technically speaking, as a private company, the trajectory of the company could change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but that would be as the main wholesale company. There was a requirement that there would be a separate entity to deliver the broadband.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, to sell the broadband. Would the virtual new model have to have got rid of that point?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Okay. In terms of the €1 billion cost that is in the newspapers today versus the €3 billion, perhaps I misheard Ms Lennon, but did she say at some point today that it would take €900 million to upgrade the poles and the ducts?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The company would have a cheque for €1 billion in its back pocket and €900 million would go to upgrade the poles and ducts over 25 years. According to my sums, we would have €100 million left to do upgrades and pay the VAT. That sum cannot be correct.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Has Eir attributed a value to the existing poles in the €1 billion figure?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes, but the copper network is providing a certain amount of service.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Lennon has not attributed any cost in the €1 billion for the use of those poles?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan: Discussion (Resumed) (25 Jun 2019)
Kate O'Connell: But there is no figure included in the €1 billion for their use, because Eir is using them already.