Results 281-300 of 3,336 for speaker:Kate O'Connell
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I have worked with many people with disabilities over the years, for example, a pharmacist and a family member with disabilities. I do not want to class everybody as the same but there is a familiarity with buildings. For example, we bring my sister-in-law to the same place every year on holidays because it is familiar to her, she knows the people and she would go berserk if we brought her...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: As CEO, does Ms Keogh not think it would be better if the IWA had the money to keep Cuisle?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Ms Keogh said a hotel is not for everybody.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: If a hotel is not for everybody, and if Cuisle closes, there will be people who will not have a place that is suitable for them to go on holidays.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Proposed Closure of Cuisle Accessible Holiday and Respite Care Resort: Discussion (21 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: There is the same argument of familiarity.
- Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (14 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Tá ceist agam don Aire Oideachais agus Scileanna. I raise the issue of the incredibly challenging situation regarding school places for children with autism spectrum disorder, ASD, in Dublin 2, Dublin 4, Dublin 8 and especially in Dublin 6 and Dublin 6W. In an area of 80 sq. km, there are more than 80 primary schools, but only three have an ASD unit. No unit in south Dublin will have...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for attending. Following on from Deputy Naughten's comments, there has been much talk back and forth and the point has been laboured. I do not think anyone is suggesting that anybody should be treated in an unfair manner. The point is that it is the assets that are being treated differently. I do not think anyone is suggesting that someone from a farming background...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Individual what?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Mr. Redmond can imagine a situation where an asset is at stake and an older person is not getting the care he or she wants or needs because people are trying to reach the five-year point. They might prop mammy up at home until they reached it. That is not good policy. The older person should be the focus.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: Everything is supposed to be climate proofed now. Everything is supposed to have that consideration. There was a concerted effort to reduce fragmentation - pockets of land - and make things more efficient, but some of this Bill will have a negative effect on that policy. I cannot see how it is not a consideration. I would like the Department to consider it. The people who are taking over...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: No one is suggesting that.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that, but these are unique assets. Such assets sequester carbon and need to be managed. If the land is not leased and is left fallow, there will be an issue. Active farming of the land and the maintenance of biodiversity and so on that farming communities do are important. The point of the incentives some years ago to promote leasing and land mobility was to make the farm an...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Nursing Homes Support Scheme (Amendment) Bill 2019: Discussion (13 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I understand that. My point is that if it becomes inequitable to bother leasing it out or if it is not equitable to lease the land due to the tax arrangements, it will be left fallow. No one will bother with it because it will not be worth it.
- Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (6 Nov 2019)
Kate O'Connell: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I welcome the Kelly family here today. I wish to pay tribute to Peter Kelly, Longford, Ireland, as he introduced himself to me back in the day. I got to know him through Emily and Peter, as they studied pharmacy with me in the early noughties. The issue that emerged was how we would get home to vote so that I could cancel out a Fianna Fáil vote. The UK...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: Yes. I know it is not their fault.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: I thank the witnesses for being here at this hour of the evening.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: This decision was made on the basis of who was the more powerful.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: It is getting interesting now. I will move on to methane, an issue that bugs me. I am not sure if any of the witnesses are familiar with organic chemistry. The documents indicate that 72% of our emissions are non-ETS and one third are agriculture. Is that just the production of food? Does that include fumes from tractor or does it relate only to livestock?
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: Fumes from a tractor are a certain type of emission. Cattle produce methane which breaks down. Methane is given a global warming potential of 25 versus carbon. I assume all the witnesses are familiar with that. It means methane is 25 times worse than carbon. I hope the witnesses, as statisticians, will get this. Methane breaks down after 12 years but has a 25 times greater warming...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Accounts of the Public Services
Chapter 9 - Greenhouse Gas-Related Financial Transactions: Discussion (5 Nov 2019) Kate O'Connell: That is what I was saying.