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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Can I ask a further follow-up question on that topic?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for those responses. The concern people have raised with me is exactly what Dr. McKenna has identified, namely, that if they are beyond the point of the very first testing where there is a lead-in time, a delay of six months should not make that much difference because it might be ten years before it develops and there is plenty of time for intervention and treatment....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. McKenna for that..
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I will go back to where the choke points in the process are and what we can do about them. As I understand it, and this is not a perfect understanding, there are essentially four steps. There is the capacity of general practitioners to meet women for a consultation and do the smear tests. There is then cytology, which involves looking at the cells on a screen and carrying out a HPV test...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Thank God.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: If a company in Dublin, Cork, Kerry, London or Edinburgh that does 1 million tests a year were to indicate it could handily take on another 10,000 tests each week for Ireland, would that essentially fix the problem?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I thank Dr. McKenna for that. Let us say we could get these 80,000 tests done very quickly, which obviously we all want to happen. I have spoken to colposcopists and histopathologists around the country and they are saying, particularly the colposcopists, that they have enormous waiting lists. Dr. McKenna made the point that there are tens of thousands of women awaiting gynaecology...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Are they from the laboratories?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Are they from GPs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (13 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Is more professional training needed for GPs? Is that the issue with inappropriate referrals?
- Nurses, Midwives and Paramedics Strikes: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (14 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: I move amendment No. 1:To delete all words after “Dáil Éireann:” and substitute the following: “notes that: — the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation’s Executive Council and the Psychiatric Nurses Association have suspended industrial action, following a recommendation from the Labour Court; — the Labour Court recommendation makes...
- Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy is missing the point.
- Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: It is not control-----
- Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (14 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: Through the Chair, Deputy Wallace is missing the point.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 149. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 433 of 29 January 2019, if the note provided to him on 7 September 2018 by his officials updating him on the emerging position of the cost increases involved with building the new national children’s hospital will be provided (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7443/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (19 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the commencement of the compassionate access programme for patients that require treatment with medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7779/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (19 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on the granting of importation licences for medicinal cannabis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7780/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (19 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 342. To ask the Minister for Health if there are changes in circumstances envisioned for patients already granted licences for medicinal cannabis when the compassionate access programme is commenced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7781/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (19 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 397. To ask the Minister for Health if Ireland's full participation in the four pillars of the BeNeLuxA collaboration, including information sharing, horizon scanning, joint assessment and joint pricing and reimbursement, will require amendments to existing national legislation or statutory instruments. [8125/19]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: International Agreements (19 Feb 2019)
Stephen Donnelly: 398. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to undertake a regulatory impact assessment and-or a cost-benefit analysis of Ireland's participation in the BeNeLuxA initiative. [8126/19]