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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: It is to save Mr. Quinn from having to repeat himself. I may come back in afterwards. We have discussed here before exactly what Deputy Kelleher raises. The buck stops with the Irish Medical Council or the pharmaceutical regulator. The professional has to answer to his or her body. We were discussing open disclosure here last week or the week before and the same issue arose about...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: Yes. May I come in now?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: That is so unlikely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health Information and Patient Safety Bill: Discussion (14 Dec 2016)

Kate O'Connell: I will be brief. I want to get my head straight on the licensing of services. HIQA, therefore, does not have a role in the acute hospital setting. It was said that a particular menu of services would be commissioned, such as knee replacements. The Department of Health sets a standard against which boxes must be ticked. Will it be so prescriptive that two consultants are needed on site to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Is it three minutes each? Is that what we agreed before? I cannot remember.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: The first question for the CER is on efficiencies and this two-year review. When it is quantifying the amount of money that is being saved, is it looking at what is suffered as result of that saving or just that it expects this efficiency due to economies of scale and such issues? In its submission, I was quite concerned at the mention of the metering process. How does the CER consider...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I expect a bit of respect when I am speaking. Why do they think it appropriate to abandon a project that is 75% finished? Do the witnesses have any data from the Industrial Development Authority, IDA, on companies, either indigenous or foreign, that have not set up in Ireland because of the lack of water security to the mid-2020s? The agrifood business and others need a lot of water....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: If I may, I apologise - I probably phrased the question incorrectly at the start. What Dr. McGowan is saying is that when he talks about stopping the metering programme, this concerns areas where there are challenges with metering. He is not referring to metering overall.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I would like Dr. McGowan to clarify his statement.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Parking, rather than-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It is a question of parking rather than abandoning it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: How can one determine excessive use without metering? Is that based on the percentage of homes already metered and the extrapolation of that data?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Dr. McGowan is saying one can determine excessive use by examining the data on 58% of homes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Such as?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Perhaps, to put it in plain language, that means Dr. McGowan would say somebody with two children would use this, as opposed to putting a meter at the door.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Irish Water and Commission for Energy Regulation (12 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: So, guessing.

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. They referred to 3 million diagnostic tests. While I am aware of commercial sensitivities could they elaborate on the proportion of diagnostic tests per patient in the private sector? Is more testing done on private patients than on public patients? Have they any figures on the pure cost of a test, for example, such as an MRI in the...

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: No. It is on the management structures. Mr. Fitzgerald said the Beacon had 1,000 staff and seven managers. Does he have any idea about how many administrative staff there are? Would it be true to say that there is a leaner management structure in the Beacon, which is in the private sector, than there is in the public sector? Would it be fair to say that?

Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare: Health Service Reform: Private Hospitals Association (18 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am trying to find out if more tests are run on private patients in private hospitals than there are on public patients. That is what I am trying to get at.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (19 Jan 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank all the witnesses for their presentations. It is worth noting that despite a ratio of live births to consultants of 1,000:3.95 our outcomes are comparable with the best in the world. I am mindful, however, that there is always the straw that breaks the camel's back. A large number of people have put a great deal of work into this strategy and it is excellent. One could possibly be...