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Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I hope the Leas-Cheann Comhairle will defend my right to speak in the Dáil and not be shouted down-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: -----by a group of male Deputies who can never actually be pregnant.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: What does it say about this country that women can be accused of being killers and that posters can go up about a licence to kill and of foetuses that are able to speak? The Dáil and the Minister for Health should set the record straight. For example, a foetus at nine weeks is 0.9 of an inch and at 12 weeks is 2.13 of an inch. It says something about the fear of the Irish...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Does the Taoiseach agree that we should challenge this-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and we should say there is nothing wrong with the image of a heart that calls for repeal-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: -----and there is nothing-----

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We should not allow political censorship.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is against censorship.

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (24 Apr 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: They have in the past.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: We have a very patronising attitude to women in this society, as evidenced by the outrageous treatment of the women involved in this case, a paternalistic attitude among doctors to women, and a refusal to allow full disclosure to patients. I want to speak about an issue which some of the parties in this Dáil do not seem to be interested in, namely, privatisation, which has led to this...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Jury Service (1 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 196. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if travel expenses for jurors will be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19038/18]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Charities Regulation (1 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 402. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if the role of the Charities Regulator in the removal of a mural at a centre (details supplied) will be investigated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18721/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (2 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 148. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the level of public transport service to Connolly hospital, Blanchardstown, will be improved (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19211/18]

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

Ruth Coppinger: I cannot hear.

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

Ruth Coppinger: The HSE opening statement reads, "The current primary screening test used by CervicalCheck is a cytology test known to have low sensitivity, that is, it produces a not insignificant number of false negative results." Why would we use a system with low sensitivity in a country that has the highest cervical cancer rate of all EU member states? I wish to ask about the claim Mr. O'Brien has...

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

Ruth Coppinger: I will put my other questions then. Why has Ireland never reached the 1.8% average high-grade detection rate that other countries reached, particularly as this incidence of cancer here is higher than anywhere else in Europe? Will the witnesses explain the other screening programmes? MedLab Pathology claims, in its own propaganda and publicity material, that it has the contract for the...

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

Ruth Coppinger: I do not think I asked anything that has already been answered.

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

Ruth Coppinger: I was referring to the fact that over the ten years we never reached the 1.8% average rate that other countries did yet we have a higher instance of cervical cancer. If we are getting lower detection rates back but getting a higher number of actual diagnoses, did Dr. Holohan not flag a problem over the ten years?

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

Ruth Coppinger: Why did we not reach the average other countries reached?

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

Ruth Coppinger: That was only in one year. That was the first year. However, while it did go up in subsequent years and hovered around a rate of 1.4%, it never went up to a rate of 1.8%. That is a significant difference in average from other countries that do the test differently. I refer to our nearest neighbour, the National Health Service, NHS, for example.