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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí (Atógáil) - Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (19 Sep 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...that in context, the Taoiseach's office spent €15 million on press statements the same year. The National Cyber Security Centre did not have a director or a premises that year. Nobody was ever held to account for that. In the case of CervicalCheck, the Government promised in this Chamber that no woman would ever have to go to court because of the damage done to her....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (9 Sep 2024)

Heather Humphreys: ...in relation to disability caused by Thalidomide. Also included are ex gratia payments made to women who worked in the Magdalen Laundries, the Symphysiotomy Payment Scheme, the Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening and the package of support measures for women diagnosed with cervical cancer since 2008. In addition, other ex gratia scheme payments of compensation include Personal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Sep 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...that the HPV vaccine is administered early and before any likely exposure to HPV. Maximising uptake in the schools-based HPV vaccination programme will be necessary to achieve the target of cervical cancer elimination. My Department is working with the HSE to review the available options for future catch up opportunities.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (11 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...new medicines, facilitating the introduction of 61 new cancer medicines. Capital funding of over €140m has been used to provide state of the art radiation oncology facilities in Galway and Cork, to establish a National Cervical Screening Laboratory, and to update cancer infrastructure in chemotherapy wards and lab facilities for the benefit of patients. The funding since...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: State Apologies (10 Jul 2024)

Simon Harris: ...this Scheme are fully implemented. On 22 October 2019 the then Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar T.D., issued an apology in the Dáil on behalf of the State to the women and their loved ones affected by issues relating to the Cervical Check Screening Programme. While screening will not prevent all cases of cervical cancer, the failures experienced by the women concerned were acknowledged. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (10 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...art radiation oncology facilities in Galway and Cork under the National Plan for Radiation Oncology, to update cancer infrastructure in chemotherapy wards and lab facilities for the benefit of patients, and for the new National Cervical Screening Laboratory. New development funding has enabled the recruitment of more than 670 staff to our national cancer services since 2017, including...

Inquiry into the death of Shane O'Farrell: Motion [Private Members] (9 Jul 2024)

Matt Carthy: ...apologies for the hostility of the State in the face of victims who have been failed by the agencies of the State. In recent years, we have heard similar words in respect of mother and baby homes, cervical screening failures, those criminalised for their homosexuality, the Magdalen women, clerical sex abuse and the Dublin and Monaghan bombings victims. In each case, the Taoisigh...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (9 Jul 2024) See 2 other results from this answer

John Paul Phelan: 674. To ask the Minister for Health his plans for the launch of Ireland’s cervical cancer elimination strategy this year; the measures he intends to take to help increase vaccination rates to the required levels for elimination to occur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29164/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...concluded. Under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan, an updated European Council Recommendation on cancer screening was published in December 2022. The Recommendation calls for the further expansion of cervical, breast and colorectal (bowel) cancer screening as well as feasibility studies on future screening programmes for gastric, prostate and lung cancer. Ireland is involved in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...25 additional staff and the continued roll-out of new and innovative forms of radiotherapy. Construction of a new €70m radiation oncology facility at University Hospital Galway was completed in 2022, with first patients seen in Q2 2023. National Cervical Screening Laboratory has been scaling up operations after receiving full accreditation by the Irish National Accreditation Board...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...€100,000 each year with €914,000 allocated in 2024. A Procurement Framework was established to support the purchase of products, vending machines, equip facilities and distribute period products to those most in need. A Cervical Cancer Elimination target date of 2040 was announced in November 2023. There has been significant investment in the Cervical Cancer Elimination...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (9 Jul 2024)

Aindrias Moynihan: 778. To ask the Minister for Health the number of Cervical Check smear testing samples contracted out to foreign laboratories for testing for the years 2022, 2023 and to the end of June 2024; to provide these figures also as a percentage for the same time periods of the total number of smear tests carried out by Cervical Check, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (9 Jul 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...of age or younger In relation to any extension, I can confirm that the HSE and my Department continue to work together to review available options in relation to the programme. With the aim of moving towards cervical cancer elimination in the coming years, it will be important to focus on increasing vaccination uptake rates in the routine HPV vaccination programme. As you will be...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (27 Jun 2024)

Charlie McConalogue: ...shall be designated “AI” (in the case of inseminations carried out with fresh semen or chilled semen) or “FI” (for inseminations carried out with frozen semen). There is no requirement to record trans-cervical or surgical implantation within that subset.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...the HSE and health agencies and make a significant contribution to the strategic decision-making work of those committees and groups. The Minister provided additional Grant Funding to the 221+ Cervical Check Patient Support Group for three-years (to 31st December 2024). This funding is to support the Group's work in assisting patients and next of kin of those directly affected by the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (25 Jun 2024)

Eileen Flynn: I wish to talk about the cervical scandal that stills exists in Ireland. If a woman is going for a cervical check, her swab gets sent to America or Germany. Can women in this country trust the cervical tests? As someone who has been there and done all of that over the last year and a half, I can say we cannot trust them. It takes six weeks for the test result to come back. We should...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Laboratory Facilities (20 Jun 2024)

Denis Naughten: ...cancer, a close family member has tested positive for the gene, and three more family members are waiting to be referred for testing. If this young woman has this gene, she told me she has a 90% chance of getting cervical cancer and an 80% chance of getting breast cancer. She has been told she will have to wait 24 months just to have a test. These are life and death delays. We require...

Seanad: National Cancer Services: Motion (19 Jun 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Annie Hoey: ...in Ireland has announced a trial programme for lung cancer screening and I hope we will see the success of that. Ideally, lung cancer screening programmes would be similar to BreastCheck or CervicalCheck in that they would be accessible and readily available. The data from the National Cancer Registry Ireland report indicates that instances of lung cancers are higher in more deprived...

Seanad: Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Bill 2022: Second Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...that the supplementary Bill in September will address their concerns. They are the same-sex female couples whose children remain excluded from parental recognition for both of their parents. The cervical cancer survivors from the 221+ group, many of whom have experienced relationship breakdown from the strain of their misdiagnosis and subsequent dramatic surgeries and treatment, need...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (29 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...the former Deputy, Dr. Harty, who was a representative of the area, as well as by Deputies Connolly and Catherine Murphy. They asked him to appoint an independent health expert, as he did for the cervical cancer scandal, to investigate the dossier outside his Department because new information was contained within. As I understand it - and the Taoiseach may not remember this, which is...