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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I just think we are moving-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Am I reading it right that 4% of the procedures were emergency procedures and that 96% were regular or scheduled procedures? What is Dr. Herity's professional opinion on performing these primary PCIs which is how it was referred to at that low level without an extensive cardiology support network and the invasive surgery the lads and women can perform? What impact does that have on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. I am sorry for leaving but I had to be in two committees at the same time. I am not sure if I am done with hearts or water at this stage. When I came in somebody was answering a question on the effective catchment area so I will not go over it again, but in any other assessment in which any of the witnesses have been involved throughout their...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: It is, therefore, a progressive or straight line graph.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Perhaps this question was answered and I missed it, but were any of the witnesses involved in any study that used the effective catchment metric? Have they ever stood over any report, review or data that used the metric?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: For balance, I think this committee should perhaps invite the consultants from those hospitals that were mentioned who might agree with the Herity report. It was said the view was not unanimous. We have an independent review and exceptionally qualified people who all have the same view. Perhaps in the interests of balance we could speak to those who hold an opposing view. We could have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Yes, absolutely.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Catheterisation Laboratory Clinical Review: Discussion (8 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Could Dr. Colwell repeat those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for coming before the committee. I have a few questions. Whoever is most able to answer them can do so. In light of last week's meeting, could they outline why individual metering at people's homes is more beneficial than district meeting? Could they elaborate on whether there are benefits in this regard? The expert commission recommends a charge for excessive...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Commission for Energy Regulation and Irish Water (14 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Is the witness saying that if we were starting at ground zero, he could not say whether metering would be good or bad, even though he says that metering promotes conservation?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Future Funding of Domestic Water Services: Role of Regulators and Compliance with European Law: Discussion (15 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: No.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am sure the witnesses do not have to think too much about the last question. The statistics provided by the Institute of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists indicate 36% of women attending ante-natal services in Ireland have no 20-week scan. Could the level of potential adverse events as a result of that lack of scanning be extrapolated? Perhaps the witnesses could discuss the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I asked about women avoiding visits to their general practitioner with post-natal depression because of the likelihood that they will be prescribed a medication.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: In terms of the outcomes for families in cases where money has been paid for a catastrophic incident at birth who have to deal with a child with a defect for the rest of their lives that was caused during birth, no money would compensate them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Maternity Strategy: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: In terms of the success of the national cancer strategy, this committee is exploring universal access from the start. I am told that in Cork there is no major benefit to being a private patient. That is obviously positive. My sister had twins in the unit there. I am a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare, as is the Chairman, and one of the focus points of that committee is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from Deputy Kelleher's statements on scoliosis, no one watching the "Prime Time Investigates" programme could not have been moved by it. I believe people are more likely to become just numbers when people in management positions have no clinical expertise and administrators have no medical training and are not bound to any medical ethics, as doctors and members of other...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank witnesses for their answers to the question of the anomaly in scans. We discussed the national maternity hospital last week and found that many hospitals were only scanning high-risk women. Professor Kenny from Cork stated that, in 1% of cases, there were structural defects in the non-risk group, amounting to 230 children born in this country every year with problems that were not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (22 Feb 2017)

Kate O'Connell: As the Minister knows, I am a community pharmacist. My concern is that I do not believe that campaign worked. I know we are to have a review of it but - at the risk of boring the members - I said here last week that I have worked in areas from the most deprived to the most affluent and have often seen very well-educated people just taking random multi-vitamins. The issue is not being...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I thank the delegates for coming before us again. What they are recommending is that, within certain parameters, the use of cannabis-based products be authorised but on foot of a prescription from a medical consultant or somebody at that level, for want of a better word. What the witnesses are saying is that it is allowed, but if I needed it, I would have to get a medical consultant to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cannabis for Medical Use: Discussion (7 Mar 2017)

Kate O'Connell: I am sorry I had to leave earlier. I apologise if I am repeating points that have been dealt with in my absence. I wish to clarify the answer given by Dr. Nolan before I left. Dr. Nolan said that the patient who claims to require this medication must be under the supervision of a consultant but that, in theory, the prescription could be written by a registered medical practitioner. This...