Results 21-40 of 44 for cervical speaker:Bríd Smith

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...and false positives because I have gone to the trouble to understand it. That is not the point I am getting at. I am getting at the irresponsibility of this State to continue outsourcing Cervical Check samples to laboratories in America that were not up to scratch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...the internal audit was shut down and that, since then, between 250 and 300 women who were excluded from the group of 221 women who were affected initially - the 221 group - have been diagnosed with cervical cancer? In other words, these women's cases have not been audited and the women have not been given access to the care package which members of the 221 group received, yet it is likely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...it do that? Why would it say, "here is €2.5 million but there is no issue here with us having poor quality testing"? Our contention is that the outsourcing has delivered poor-quality services in cervical screening for women.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...representatives, public health professionals and representatives of medical bodies which has met four times to date. This was a whole year ago. Between 250 and 300 women have been diagnosed with cervical cancer since then. If I was one of them, I would feel let down by the State, the system, the HSE and everybody concerned on the basis that no audit of my screening history is available...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: .... What is required, however, is the signing of a waiver by the woman. That is what we want to remove. Regardless of the five-year period mentioned by Deputy Kelly, if there is a recurrence of cervical cancer in ten or 15 years' time, the waiver might mean that the woman would have no redress or would not have the capacity to investigate or take a case to court. The Minister said in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...the note he read out in the Dáil last night? Mr. Gleeson kicked it up the line. Who did Mr. Gleeson kick it up the line to? There are two heads of screening; one is the head of the national cervical screening programme, Dr. Gráinne Flannelly, and the other is the national head of screening overall, Charles O' Hanlon. To whom was this kicked up the line and what did they do...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: The Taoiseach promised the women of Ireland that they can be retested by their general practitioner, GP. That is very welcome because cervical testing and screening is very important. However, questions arise. In my office alone there are three women who cannot get appointments with their doctors. There is a crisis with GPs services. One woman can get an appointment at the end of May....

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: .... They say it is great to have competition as it brings down prices and makes more efficiency. It actually does not. It creates dangerous situations for women's health and lives. From the data the national cervical screening programme compiles, we can find out quickly and succinctly the rates of detection. This will allow us to compare the misdiagnosis rates coming from labs...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...know that Clinical Pathology Laboratories, CPL, tried to gag Vicky Phelan but she would not acquiesce. CPL is the sister company of MedLab in Sandyford and we are still using it to screen women's cervical tests. Even if we accept the bona fides of the Minster for Health, Deputy Harris, in regard to not knowing about this issue, there is still a problem because the chief medical officer...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...will mostly be in primary care centres located in communities. It could also be in an IFPA clinic or a Well Woman Centre. The GP is the person with whom one makes the appointment but one might need a cervical smear, injection, flu jab or some kind of diabetes check-up and one will often see the nurse. The practitioner runs the clinic and the nurse may deliver the service. The GP still...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I asked the Minister to comment on the statement by the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine on cervical screening. The statement said that for any screening programme to be successful, it must have the trust and confidence of the public and to ensure that confidence is maintained the results of the audit of 2014 must be published. Will the Minister comment on that please? ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...back in anger and move forward with a proper process but if we do not look back, history will be repeated. Outsourcing to private and for-profit services, whether it is for fertility issues or CervicalCheck, will bring such issues. Fertility treatment probably will not kill a person but not having the correct analysis of a cervical smear test may do so. What do we say to women who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cancer Screening Programmes: Discussion (23 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: I thank the Chairman for letting me in and apologise for being late. I have two brief questions, one of which follows from Dr. Regan's remarks. I want to ask about the measures taken by the cervical cancer national cancer screening services quality assurance in cytopathology. Quality assurance site visits to laboratory providers is listed as one of the things that must be undertaken,...

Referendum of 25 May: Statements (29 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...and the Tuam mother and baby home. However, we still have a great deal to learn about how we treat women's health. We need to bring closure quickly to the questions of symphisiotomy and the cervical cancer scandal. That line in the sand is gone for the old conservative religious dogma of this country and the tide is gushing in. The Dáil needs to look seriously over the next...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...Why would the company have settled with her if there was not a difficulty? I would like a brief answer. I have read the press release from the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine on cervical screening. It has called on the Minister for Health to publish the results of the 2014 audit. When I asked the Minister in the Dáil last night to do that, he said there were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have a question for the Minister. I noted his statement on the RCOG report. I have ideological issues with the way CervicalCheck has been outsourced. I acknowledge that but I also acknowledge that the Minister needs and wants, and I accept that women must have, confidence in CervicalCheck, that it has to be used, that it is a good thing and that it saves lives. I want to get that out of...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...few: public-private partnerships on toll roads; school buildings that are faulty and on which we pay more and more to have them sorted out; the national convention centre; the national children's hospital; and the cervical check programme. Even with the history of a great number of observers of this plan having very serious concerns about it from the outset, it has developed in an even...

Health Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (20 Jun 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...a failing public system. A person born into a lower socio-economic group has, on average, four years less to live than someone from an upper professional group. The higher rates of lung, stomach and cervical cancers in deprived areas mean that there is a lower chance of survival. The real scandal is that these facts have been known to us for a very long time but the political...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Bríd Smith: I wish to start by stating something obvious. I am not being smart, but I hope it is obvious that I am a woman, that I have access to CervicalCheck services and that I support the screening programme. I have received a lot of criticism for scaremongering. I am not scaremongering; rather, I am querying why the outsourcing issue has not been properly addressed. Privatisation and outsourcing...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...and outsourcing, we use the excuse that the system is in crisis, that there is a backlog, that it takes months to get a result and that we have to go to the wonderful private market. We treated cervical cancer screening, a vital service on which tens of thousands of women rely and for which they understand the need, like every other service or good and organised a tendering competition...