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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Prior to the FEMPI changes to these open-ended schemes, if Mr. Hourihan, as a treating dentist, saw a person with a medical card, he knew he could plan a pathway of treatment without getting approval from whoever pays him. Now, he must get approval for a treatment plan before he can proceed. Is it true to say that perhaps this is hindering the progression of a treatment pathway?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Even in terms of the drugs that are allowed, the scheme is very limited.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: As a pharmacist, I find it ridiculously limited. It is not as if a dentist will prescribe a medication for rheumatoid arthritis.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Dentists will prescribe drugs that are needed. The scheme is very restrictive. The costs of some components of the treatment pathway are paid for and the dentist may decide that the patient also needs other treatments. Let us say a dentist wants to give a child or an adult with a medical card a certain type of treatment. How long does it take to obtain approval? Is approval given in weeks?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Who decides? Is it a dentist or someone else?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Does anyone have figures on this? Perhaps the committee could get them. Has there been a saving? Are there comparative figures?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Has that increase occurred since the cuts were introduced?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Does an acute hospital admission in dentistry mean someone turning up with astronomical pain, probably heading towards sepsis?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Sepsis, yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Intravenous antibiotics, the lot.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Is there a gap between the extraction and removal of cancer by Professor Stassen and reconstruction?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: The argument being made is that there should be a seamless transition from treatment to reconstruction to allow patients to get on with their lives.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Oral Health Policy: Discussion (15 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thank all of the witnesses for their comments.
- Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Vetting (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: 455. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the rationale for repeat vetting the same person in different organisations; if vetting could be transferable; and his plans to streamline this requirement in order that the same person does not have to undergo the Garda vetting processes numerous times in order to work legally across a number of bodies. [18621/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Transport Authority Expenditure (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: 1298. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the person or body that authorised the use of public funds by the National Transport Authority for its publicity campaign on BusConnects; and the cost of this campaign. [19188/19]
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I apologise for my late arrival. I had another engagement. I will briefly touch on the valproate issue. I am a pharmacist by profession and have been dispensing valproate for years. We talk about awareness of the side effects and when they happened and so on. In terms of where we go from here, women with epilepsy who want to have a baby have an additional requirement for folic acid. It...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Regarding women suffering from epilepsy, though, it just seems so logical that there would be a very obvious campaign through GPs and pharmacies. It is not known about. One does not hear it discussed. Perhaps the Chairman will have a different view, but people are not aware of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: While we are giving out, is it Ms Battles' view that this is causing unnecessary pain as more-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Yes. That comes up. It really matters to people whose condition is rapidly deteriorating.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Services for those Living with a Neurological Condition: Discussion (8 May 2019)
Kate O'Connell: They never get to spend their home care packages as sometimes they are gone before they are able to do so.