Results 1-4 of 4 for destroyed speaker:Kate O'Connell

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Voluntary Organisations in the Health Sector: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Jul 2019)

Kate O'Connell: ...bring to the table. I am concerned about whether, if it becomes a contractual, box-ticking, deadline-meeting exercise, that the core value of the voluntary bodies represented here will be destroyed. Reference was made to sodium valproate. Epilepsy Ireland, along with its international counterparts, has done significant work to help the people who need this drug but also to bring...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018)

Kate O'Connell: ...the doctor down the road implicitly. Such doctors would diagnose a person's pregnancy, weigh the babies when they were brought in and they were part of one's life. That relationship has been destroyed over time for whatever reasons. We are trying to apply open disclosure as though the relationship with the doctor was the same. However, if one considers a doctor with whom a patient may...

Topical Issue Debate: Infectious Diseases (8 Nov 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...of cases. Continued high vaccination rates are vital if we are to ensure a sustained protection of the population from diseases. Facts and science save lives while miscommunication and untruths destroy them, given how they have been shown to affect vaccination rates. This country has faced challenges with the HPV vaccine, so it would be regrettable if we were to let our vaccination rate...

Misuse of Drugs (Supervised Injecting Facilities) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (8 Mar 2017)

Kate O'Connell: ...it probably does not suit some people to hear this but we sell alcohol legally in this country. How many alcoholics do we have? We allow people to gamble legally. How many families have been destroyed by gambling? I was asked why we will not be giving addicts methadone in injection centres but they do not want methadone. They want heroin. They want to inject drugs. If they wanted...