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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Returning to the efficiency of the herd, I note that we export 90% of our agricultural products. The European Commission's report on efficiency put us in first place for dairy and fifth place for beef. The European Union is an open market at the moment. Without oversimplifying it, is it said at European level that food must be produced somewhere because we need it to stay alive, and it is...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Everyone is at a different starting point.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I wish to return in my final question to Bord Bia's role. It is a big issue for me at the moment. I cannot understand why we are not marketing our product better. The Bord Bia quality assurance brand is brilliant. People recognise it and use it. Is there any move towards a traffic light system to show how far a product on the shelf has travelled? It should be very clear to the consumer...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I am not suggesting barriers to trade. I am talking about something that is very clear to shoppers, like the Bord Bia quality assurance system. It would make clear that although there is a narrative saying it is better to use certain foods - I keep picking on soy because it is the handiest example - this is not factually correct. This is not about trying to skew information. It is just...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: And myths.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Will the Department provide us with a note on that?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 30 - Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Chapter 10 - Forestry Grants (24 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I get concerned when there is a global movement about something. At the end of the day, we all need to eat. Some people will see that as a market and without any regard for science or evidence will claim that certain products are better because it is a good story.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I apologise for being late. I had another meeting which went on. I sat on the Sláintecare committee. Although this issue was part of it, I felt it was ideological in terms of the proposals for how it should be done. I get what Dr. de Buitléir is saying in that staff numbers are the same, as is the number of sick people who require care. His response to Senator Colm Burke...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I believe people should be treated equally but belief does not produce consultants. We can have political ideology and all of that, but beliefs and thoughts do not produce consultants and deliver better services.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The proliferation in the private hospital sector has been apparent in recent years with the opening of emergency department services during the day and so on. We are well aware of the power of lobbying and large corporations in the private sector. That will always occur. Can we win the battle? Are those of us who want to deliver a uniform service to which everyone will have equal access...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: We do not have many private national schools. We have a few.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Does Dr. de Buitléir believe they can both have a symbiotic relationship?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It can operate by itself. On the fallout from private hospitals, maybe this is a question for Dr. Keegan but there is anecdotal evidence that it has emerged that some treatments are being done in private hospitals, especially in the field of elective cosmetic surgery, and then the sick person is ending up in the public system. If the damage is done in a private hospital and then the patient...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Following on from Deputy Donnelly's question, some people have always had private health insurance, perhaps as part of their job, but I am focused on maternity and paediatric care. Deputy Donnelly asked a question about continuity of maternity care. A fundamental reason women and their partners go for private maternity care is the continuity of care with a consultant. I understand that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: There was a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Why did Dr. de Buitléir not consider the reasons women often go for private treatment when having babies and perhaps do not use ever use private treatment again and get rid of it after having the baby? Why was that not examined?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It was never raised.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Did the group ask any women?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I do not think it is relevant that Dr. de Buitléir has four children. I am asking about the women engaged with as part of the research.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Okay.