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Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: Second Stage (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This is important legislation that I am proud to sponsor and delighted to have the opportunity to progress. It has the support of the Irish Cancer Society, the Irish Association for Nurses in Oncology, the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute and the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland. Furthermore, it has the backing of many cancer survivors, brave patient advocates who have battled...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Professor Fitzpatrick for attending the meeting today. Our paths have crossed and I alerted the committee that we know each other to an extent. I thank Professor Fitzpatrick for the time he served as master of the Coombe hospital. It is something people do and it is not often recognised. It is a very important role and I have told the health committee previously that I am a big...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: One could argue that it is not a world class hospital if the maternity hospital is not on site, in terms of the spend. If we do not put the maternity hospital there, it will not tick the boxes we set out to tick.

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: This might go outside the remit of the Committee of Public Accounts, but it is Thursday afternoon. I am also a member of the health committee. We have the maternity strategy and I am aware that Professor Fitzpatrick and many of his colleagues had an input into that. One of the criticisms of the maternity strategy was that it separated obstetrics and gynaecology. It is the separation of...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Hypothetically speaking, if the space was available, would it be better to leave gynaecology and obstetrics together?

Public Accounts Committee: Matters Relating to the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board Financial Statements 2017: Professor Chris Fitzpatrick (11 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the professor for his time. I apologise, but I have to leave. I have business in the Chamber.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister for coming before us. I will start with the national children's hospital. I have not read the entire report yet but something in it under governance neatly sums it all up. The report stated that: The level of trust that the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (NPHDB) placed on the National Paediatric Hospital (NPH) executive and design team gave rise to...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The Minister mentioned children going to school unvaccinated, but what about an unvaccinated child going into a hospital? In Crumlin hospital there are kids going around wearing masks. There seems to be a level of unawareness of how serious measles can be. There was an outbreak of mumps in some of our universities recently. The Minister briefly mentioned the Assisted Human Reproduction...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2019
Vote 38 - Health (Further Revised) (10 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is there an answer about the accountability of the quantity surveyors or the professionals?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossessions (9 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for giving me the opportunity to discuss this matter. It concerns two citizens of Ireland, Patrick Halpin and Anne Keane of Aberdeen Lodge, and their young family. They are running a modest business and were encouraged by so-called experts to expand it some years ago. It went wrong for them, as it did for so many others. Their expansion failed and they ended up...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Home Repossessions (9 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the Minister of State. The key consideration for me and I assume for Deputy Durkan is fairness and the humanity of the situation. The Minister of State referenced the €25 million debt, but he failed to mention what was realised when the seized asset was sold and how much of the €25 million had been paid off. We are Teachtaí Dála, messengers of the people....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for attending. I add my voice to the tributes to Laura Brennan. What was so significant was her age. When people of my age tell teenagers what to do they may not listen but Ms Brennan's age and youth, which were the great tragedy of it all, had such an impact. It is not long ago that a few of us who, like the HSE and CervicalCheck, were battling to get the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If my figures are correct, the number of women who presented increased from 280,000 in 2017 to 370,000 in 2018, an increase of 90,000 women. The backlog is 79,500 or the guts of 80,000. In that case, is the extra capacity in the system sufficient for only 10,500 additional presentations? According to the opening statement, the backlog is 79,500, which suggests the HSE has found additional...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I assume these numbers are true.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: They are taken from the Mr. McCallion's opening statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In Dr. Scally's report we discovered that some of the labs in the US were not ISO accredited but were accredited to the American College. Is the HSE still using labs that do not have the accreditation that was in the contract?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: My understanding is that he wanted clarification on whether they were equal. I still do not have clarification and I do not think this committee has received clarification that the self-granted American standard is the same as what we requested in the contracts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: He is happy enough for the contracts to be renewed but perhaps not to create new contracts if the accreditation was not equal.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Laboratories with what accreditation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: With existing accreditation.