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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: It is getting very late and I am sure the people from the Health Service Executive, HSE, must be very tired after almost four hours. I have two brief questions and one substantive one; I will try to rush them. The first one is on scoliosis, about which there was a good deal of publicity recently but which appears to have fallen off the agenda. I know many families personally affected by...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: To clarify, I never said the women that were here were token; far from it. I mentioned simply that we routinely see a lot of men presenting to committees. Housing and health are no different.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Supply (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 184. To ask the Minister for Health if the resources for the administration of the Ocrelizumab drug to persons (details supplied) with multiple sclerosis will be provided; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20333/18]

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Since this scandal broke, the dogs in the street have been asking how it is good medical practice to outsource cervical screening to a privatised lab 3,000 miles away in a different time zone. Have we not arrived at the truth with these figures, given it is paying its technicians a fraction of what professionals are paid here? A private, for-profit company like Quest would be known to cut...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: At the weekend I met a woman; let us call her Anna. She had two smear tests, one in 2011 and one in 2015. Both came back as negative from Quest Diagnostics. A year later in April 2016, Anna was diagnosed with an 8 cm tumour. Thankfully today she is in remission, but the treatment means she cannot have children, which is a huge blow to her, a woman in her 30s, and her husband. We cannot...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a serious issue. Why is the Taoiseach joking?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he will take to reduce the waiting times for outpatient rheumatology appointments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19744/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Recruitment (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 284. To ask the Minister for Health if extra consultant paediatric rheumatology consultants will be appointed in order that the World Health Organization's guidelines of six for the population is met; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19745/18]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Register of Electors Administration (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 469. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on expanding the number of persons that can sign applications for the Supplementary Register of Electors in order to increase access to the register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19704/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Autism Support Services (3 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 166. To ask the Minister for Health if resources for a service (details supplied) for the provision of extra psychiatrists for the assessment of children with autism and ADHD will be increased; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19375/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Administration (3 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 199. To ask the Minister for Health if medical and surgical procedures legal here will be available at the national maternity hospital after the St. Vincent's company is established; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19467/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Maternity Hospital Administration (3 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if he has had discussions with a group (details supplied) or other Roman Catholic bodies on the ethos of the national maternity hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19468/18]

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.

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: Some women waited seven years for the results.