Results 81-96 of 96 for cervical speaker:Leo Varadkar

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from NIAC...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (16 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from NIAC...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Jun 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from NIAC...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Nov 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...we should condemn any leaking of documents such as this to the media. We agreed with the patient advocates and with the 221+ support group that this report would be handled differently from the CervicalCheck audit. Therefore, what is happening at the moment is individual women are being told about their individual results and they are being offered meetings. Some have accepted meetings...

Seanad: Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (3 Nov 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...who believe their daughters have experienced adverse reactions and health issues after receiving the HPV vaccine. The vaccine protects against two high-risk types of HPV that cause 73% of all cervical cancers. It is estimated that the HPV vaccination will save 60 lives annually in this country.The vaccine used in the school immunisation programme is gardasil, a fully tested vaccine which...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jul 2014)

Leo Varadkar: ...cancers at an early and more easily treatable stage. The HSE's national screening service operates three other population-based screening programmes, in addition to BreastCheck. These are CervicalCheck, the national cervical screening programme which provides free smear tests for women between the ages of 25 and 60 years; BowelScreen, the national bowel screening programme which commenced...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (7 Jul 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papilloma virus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Departmental Advertising Budgets (28 Nov 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...cures is very much in the public interest. The Deputy and her party do not have a very good record on this with regard to her own conduct and that of some of her party members around the issue of CervicalCheck and cervical screening. Some of the false claims made by the Deputy's party caused increased anxiety for women in Ireland. There were false claims in health and false information...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Mother and Baby Homes (25 Oct 2023)

Leo Varadkar: ...on the operation of the scheme are fully implemented. On 22 October 2019, as Taoiseach, I issued an apology in the Dáil on behalf of the State to the women and their loved ones affected by issues relating to the CervicalCheck screening programme. While screening cannot prevent all cases of cervical cancer, the failures experienced by the women concerned were acknowledged. The...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (23 Sep 2015)

Leo Varadkar: ...assessments suggest that the best way to prevent most disease due to human papillomavirus (HPV) is to vaccinate as many girls and women as possible. The HPV vaccine protects girls from developing cervical cancer when they are adults. It is available free of charge from the HSE for all girls in 1st year of secondary school. This is in accordance with the recommendation received from the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Legislative Programme (29 Jan 2019)

Leo Varadkar: ...the right to vote in Presidential elections to Irish citizens abroad and to change the law regarding divorce, as well as enabling legislation to establish a tribunal to deal with issues regarding cervical cancer screening. The programme reflects the need for the Office of the Parliamentary Counsel to prioritise work on Brexit-related legislation to ensure that the necessary primary...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Leo Varadkar: ...in a week or two when new advice arrives. We want to get it right. My understanding from the Minister for Health is that screening will resume over the summer, starting with smear taking and cervical screening. It is not yet confirmed, but that is certainly the intention. As regards the Department of Children and Youth Affairs, that Department was established by my party and the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccinations Data (19 Jan 2016)

Leo Varadkar: ...given to 90% of the age group recommended for vaccination. The matter is now with the European Commission for a final and binding decision. Use of these vaccines is expected to prevent many cases of cervical cancer (cancer of the neck of the womb, which is responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Europe each year) and various other cancers and conditions caused by HPV. The benefits...

Leaders' Questions (11 Jul 2018)

Leo Varadkar: I want to say again how distraught I am, and the country is, that so many women have had to endure the uncertainty and worry that have accompanied the CervicalCheck controversy, on which the Government has focused significantly in recent weeks and months. This has been a difficult issue to deal with. Like the women concerned, Deputy McDonald and everyone else, we did not have all the facts...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)

Leo Varadkar: ...very vulnerable today. As a Taoiseach, as a doctor, and as a brother of two sisters, I want to say a few things. First, this controversy relates to women who were already diagnosed with cervical cancer and are receiving treatment. There are many women in the country at the moment who are worried that they might have cancer and worried that the HSE and CervicalCheck know that and have...