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

Kate O'Connell: I get that Professor Flannelly is not here, but the Minister is also not here. Another comment made earlier was that the clinical advice was not taken by the Minister and that this would harm women's health and undermine the screening programme. That is a fair charge coming out of this committee this morning because the sole focus here is getting this sorted for the future. We must move...

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

Kate O'Connell: Regarding information for women, the CervicalCheck leaflet was presented to the committee a year ago. Has any work been done on that? In the aftermath of this, many GPs did not understand or know the limitations of the test at 70% or 80%. There was the concern that they did not relay that to their patients in the correct way. I was not aware of the limitations. The leaflet presented to...

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

Kate O'Connell: My understanding is that the trigger for audit was having cancer. Then we were missing a chunk of people on the national cancer registry but we are sorting that out. On the one hand, we have people talking about populism and scaremongering and then contributing to it. I feel strongly about dealing with this situation in order that, ultimately, lives are saved and outcomes are better for...

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

Kate O'Connell: With ISO accreditation and the American labs, are there internal audit processes and quality assurance procedures to ensure they fall within the correct parameters?

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

Kate O'Connell: Regarding the halting or pausing of the audit process, is it correct that it is not true to say that people have been left out or there has been a shutdown? We do not want the message going out that, for some reason, there are people not getting treatment because of the audit process status.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Insurance Costs (2 Apr 2019)

Kate O'Connell: 134. To ask the Minister for Finance the actions he is taking to address the concerns of owners of indoor play centres with regard to the unsustainable increase in insurance costs which is causing many of these businesses to close down; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15480/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is it in the State contract of GPs that they must provide a certain amount of out-of-hours services?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is all voluntary.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from the last question, Mr. Mulligan said it can be equally as good but I am assuming that is if the particular hotel is on flat land with trees without leaves and no wind blowing. We heard at the last meeting, whenever it was-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: -----a few months ago, that cable and fixed wireless or mobile wireless are not equatable. From my short studies on it, it only works where there is not clogging up of the system, the weather is good, the leaves are not on the trees and the wind is blowing in the right direction. I know there are businesses that it suits. Many businesses in Dublin fall into that category where they have...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The argument in respect of the 300,000 Eir customers who were carved out, the uptake of the scheme and the questions that have arisen this morning in that regard ring true to some extent. One does not expect those 300,000 people to need it today, but they may need it in the future. As such, it is a pointless analysis.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Others may do so as their children get older and have different study requirements and so on.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The social benefits, yes. I wish to follow up on the questions about the parent company of Enet. What sort of investors are involved? Are they American investors or Irish pension funds? Mr. Mulligan referred to the head of the company. Is the money coming from standard pension funds and so on or from elsewhere? Who is paying the bills?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: From an ethical perspective, are there any limits on with whom we will get into bed in terms of Government procurement?

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The money is coming from a legitimate source.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In response to a question of Deputy Catherine Murphy, Mr. Griffin referred to penalties, oversights and clawbacks. How will that work when a contract has been awarded? I would consider these things, such as scope for movement on certain issues, to be a nightmare for investors. At the end of the day, investors want a return on their money. How do these penalties and so on fit into a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: If a big piece of cable running down the middle of a road is serving 20 houses and the Department predicts that five of them will connect right now, but 15 of them connect, obviously that means far more money for Enet.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: That is where the clawback comes into play.

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: In terms of profits, I assume the procedure is robust enough to deal with cases like those we have previously come across. I refer to the practice of people paying themselves enough money to ensure the company does not make any money. I presume people like the Comptroller and Auditor General are keeping an eye on that so that there is proportionality when it comes to pay, etc., and profits...

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 29 - Communications, Climate Action and Environment
Broadband Service Provision: Discussion (Resumed) (28 Mar 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I thank Mr. Mulligan.