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

Kate O'Connell: That is fine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I also thank the witnesses for coming before us. I hope this all works out because it is two and a half years since the report of the Select Committee on the Future of Healthcare, chaired by Deputy Shortall and upon which Deputy Durkan and I sat, was published. We are now 25% of the way into a ten-year plan. It is not Ms Magahy's fault because she had nothing to work with initially apart...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I was expecting a child when I believe I may have been in the first tranche of recipients. It was said that pharmacists would not want to give injections to people but we all got over it. How will the role of the pharmacist in the community be expanded to prevent this 60% of admissions that are based on medication errors? I know I am boring everybody to tears, but some of the things that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: It is also the second most-trusted profession, which is important.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I believe it is the veterinary profession.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Dietetics has been a concern of mine for years in respect of people in nursing homes. The HSE did a great deal of work on cutting back on elemental feeds and so on. To follow on from Deputy Durkan's commentary, wound management and protein content of food is vital for older people and people with an injury, old or young. I agree with the Deputy Durkan that while hospital meals have improved...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation Strategy: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I wish to refer to the citizens' assembly. I initially baulked at the idea but I am now thinking it through. As we cannot change the system overnight, the witnesses are really talking about letting people decide what their priorities are in relation to universality. For example perhaps chiropody or GP care should become universal. Is the aim of this idea to let the people decide what the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Yes

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: I have not had lunch so I might be a bit cross. Following on from Deputy Murphy's questions, it is my reading that Caranua set up and then started to get its ducks in a row a long time afterwards. That is my real concern here. What year was Caranua set up?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Caranua is really only a young organisation, as such. From the questioning here today I believe that it seems to have been a basket case from the genesis of it. It did not have the staffing complement. It has come to the fore that Caranua had not recognised the complexities of the people who would be coming to it. As Deputy Murphy has clearly outlined, Caranua appears to have been shocked...

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Why not?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Who was? Is there anyone here who was?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Did Mr. O'Callaghan ever make any representation to anybody to say "I am Chairperson of this new organisation. I really am concerned about its ability to deliver for survivors"? Did Mr. O'Callaghan make any such representation?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Here we go again. When did they come on board?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Okay. So how much money? There was €110 million, and the interest which was lodged beforehand. That was a total of €111.38 million. Was any interest accrued during the period? The money was held and Caranua needed access, so was there any interest on the €111.38 in the time?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: Is it lodged in a current account?

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: They are dealing with it. Well, they do not seem to be too bad at that bit of it.

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: The witness keeps saying the staffing numbers were low-----

Public Accounts Committee: Caranua Financial Statements 2017 (17 Oct 2019)

Kate O'Connell: -----but the whole function of this was to help people, to provide supports and to try to compensate for the awful things that happened. I am not sure-----