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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...We have seen cancer mortality rates decrease by 14% for men and 13% for women. That is a better improvement than the European average of just 10% and 5%, respectively. We have a plan to eradicate cervical cancer. Huge progress has been made and I note the Deputy's support in that regard for the HPV vaccine and the like. We can actually eradicate a cancer in this country by 2040, and...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (17 Apr 2024)

Ossian Smyth: ...and social care professionals in designated cancer centres. Additionally, €30 million has been invested in cancer screening services since 2020, including €20 million for the development of the National Cervical Screening Laboratory, which opened in December 2022. Capital funding of €120 million has been used to provide state-of-the-art radiation oncology facilities...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Colm Burke: ...of Health and implementation by the NCCP. Under the national cancer strategy since 2020, the Government has invested an additional €30 million in screening services, including €20 million for the national cervical screening laboratory. Our national screening programmes are highly ranked in comparison to other European countries, and we have set the ambitious target of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Funding and Implementation of the National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (10 Apr 2024) See 12 other results from this debate

...enormous potential in cancer because of the scale of the pace of medical and scientific progress and the improvements from things like the HPV vaccine. We now have a whole form of cancer, that is, cervical cancer, which is preventable. Hopefully it will be eradicated in the coming years. There is more potential to be able to prevent more cancers in the future and to have far better,...

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

Stephen Donnelly: ...working together to review available options in relation to the programme. I have asked the HSE to respond directly to the Deputy in relation to the programme activity in 2023. 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 aware...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...Period Poverty Implementation Group established; starting in 2022, €714,000 was allocated to the Department and HSE for period poverty mitigation in the community, working with community health organisations, local authorities and NGOs. The amount allocated was increased to €814,000 in 2023 and to €914,000 in 2024.Cervical Cancer Elimination target date (2040)...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (27 Feb 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...in this country. He spoke of the failings of previous Governments. Fianna Fáil has been in government for most of the past 100 years. Fianna Fáil was there during the issues relating to cervical cancer. Fianna Fáil was there last week, when we almost lost-----

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...that is funded by the HSE. I do not have the exact details but it has to do with cancer research. When we think back to Vicky Phelan and the other ladies who had misdiagnoses and delays with cervical smears that Dr. Holohan oversaw. Now he has been appointed to cancer research.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (21 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...-year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is one of the targets required to achieve the goal of cervical cancer elimination by 2040. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked every country to put measures in place to reach this target, and the HSE is working to increase the vaccine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (15 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is one of the targets required to achieve the goal of cervical cancer elimination by 2040. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked every country to put measures in place to reach this target, and the HSE is working to increase the vaccine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Feb 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...year boys and girls in secondary school as part of the routine HPV vaccination programme. A vaccine uptake of 90% in girls by the age of 15 is one of the targets required to achieve the goal of cervical cancer elimination by 2040. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has asked every country to put measures in place to reach this target, and the HSE is working to increase the vaccine...

Tribunal of Inquiry into certain matters relating to the Complaints Processes in the Defence Forces: Motion (24 Jan 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...by Members that because this is from the Department of Defence, the Department might be trying to influence it, etc. The Department of Health has published many inquiries, the most recent being the cervical inquiry, which was established by the Department. No one questioned the outcome of that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Sláintecare Reforms (Resumed) (6 Dec 2023)

...with the IHI, which is embedded in all messaging between GP’s and Hospitals. All the statutory hospitals, with two exceptions, have also embedded the IHI into their patient administration systems. National screening services, including cervical check, breast check, bowel and retinal screening have also been populated with the IHI. All new patient-focused systems have been IHI...

Health Service Recruitment Freeze: Motion [Private Members] (21 Nov 2023) See 3 other results from this debate

Louise O'Reilly: ...bouquets at himself, he refers to a target, and the setting of a target. It is not quite an achievement but the setting of a target, and it is absolutely laudable. I agree 100% that the elimination of cervical cancer is laudable. However, we need to get a bit of perspective. There are 650 women diagnosed with cervical cancer on an annual basis. That is about the same number as spend,...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Nov 2023)

Victor Boyhan: ...had on the country, which has been profound. Vicky Phelan will be remembered for her bravery and fighting spirit. I call on my colleagues in Seanad Éireann to campaign to end the restriction of cervical smear tests to women aged over 25 years and for all smear testing to be conducted in Ireland, as was promised. Women in Ireland deserve better.I have news of a woman who is a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (7 Nov 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 1218. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of cervical screening samples that will be processed in the National Cervical Screening Laboratory at the Coombe, now that the service has resumed; the percentage that will continue to be outsourced to secondary laboratory contractors; the timeline he is working towards for increasing the number of cervical screening samples processed at the...

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 Foreign Affairs and Trade: Irish Aid (24 Oct 2023)

Seán Fleming: ...with the Governments of Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. This funding was used to improve the treatment of pre-eclampsia in pregnant women, reduce mother-to-child transmission of HIV, improve diagnosis of cervical and paediatric cancers, and pilot community health insurance. Our funding was not used for the provision of abortion-related services. In this period, €1,109,232...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Provision and Healthcare Professionals: Discussion (17 Oct 2023)

...other health systems where it has been introduced, general practice is significantly involved. In Ireland, everything we do in general practice is electronically tracked. Every prescription, ECG, cervical smear, chronic disease management visit and every termination of pregnancy is tracked. All that automated data flows into the HSE. If the information technology that is evident in...