Results 1-16 of 16 for cervical speaker:Pearse Doherty

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Feb 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...out if there are abnormalities in their smear tests. The Government talks about accountability and that is what we are looking for. This Minister is completely out of his depth. It is not just the cervical cancer scandal or the children's hospital scandal. Week after week, people we know and love who have cancer are having operations cancelled because of the dysfunctionality of the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Pearse Doherty: ...inevitable industrial action from nurses and midwives because of the Government's continued failure to address a recruitment and retention crisis. To top all of this, in the past 24 hours another CervicalCheck scandal has emerged, as serious issues have arisen relating to the screening programme. We have a health service that is in a state of constant chaos, and nobody on the Government...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (19 Dec 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...that was worth having. He impressed on the Department that it enlist debt restructuring lawyers to take on these bondholders. The Government has no problem with the State taking on victims of cervical cancer, those whose cancer diagnoses were missed in County Kerry, or those who are going to the State to ensure their children will have an assessment of needs and the courts to ensure their...

Leaders' Questions (12 Jul 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...án Fómhair i bharr na sláinte agus fosta gabhann Sinn Féin ár mbuíochas don foireann anseo i dTeach Laighean, go háirithe le cúpla seachtaine anuas agus muid ag suí go mall. I want to raise the issue of the cervical check scandal and in particular the cut-off point imposed by the Government of 11 May in respect of the payments of expenses...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...with them one week on are simply not good enough. I have asked the Tánaiste about information that does not represent a new request but that has already been promised. Are we going to see the cervical cancer audit of 2014 published? Are we going to see the documentation relating to the detection rates of the US laboratories published, as promised to the Joint Committee on Health...

Leaders' Questions (17 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...Education and Skills that central to building confidence in our health system must be the need for information, clarity and accountability. The Government has repeatedly pledged in the wake of the CervicalCheck scandal that this would be forthcoming. The Taoiseach said there would be a package of supports available to the women affected and to their families. He also said last week that...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Over the past 24 hours we have learned that two women with cervical cancer who had contacted CervicalCheck in 2016 were refused direct access to the results of the audit of their smear tests. This information is contained in a letter from CervicalCheck to the chief medical officer, Dr. Tony Holohan, in October 2016. A separate memo in March 2016 says that doctors were told to use their...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...that need to be answered. The advice needs to be published at this point. The Minister, Deputy Bruton, has said that all documents will be furnished, but they are not being furnished. The cervical cancer screening audit that has been available since 2014 has not yet been published, despite the requests for it to be published. It should be published and the Government needs to ensure...

Order of Business (15 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: Even though we are into the third week of the cervical cancer scandal, the Government has yet to get to the core of the wrongdoing in this regard. Sinn Féin wants accountability and wants to propose constructive solutions that prioritise patients above all else. As the Taoiseach will be aware, we intend to use our Private Members' time this evening to propose a motion calling on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...have taken part in clinical experiments and so on. Does Mr. Breen not think that has value in itself? If these women knew this information earlier, it would not have changed their diagnosis of cervical cancer but it would have allowed them to look at other types of treatment, drugs or clinical trials. Those options were delayed. In three cases in which proceedings against the State are...

Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...of the Central Bank and it gave a slap on the hand but it did not carry out any enforcement proceedings in regard to it. I know that every single insurance product sold by this financial institution had the exact same terms and conditions. Thousands of people were affected. We talk about disclosure and non-disclosure and we now have the cervical cancer scandal, but information is power....

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: ...go. That does not preclude him from taking part in that investigation and giving all the information that he has about how this scandal unfolded. We do not need an inquiry to inform us that women with cervical cancer were denied critical information about their healthcare. We do not need an inquiry to know that 15 women went to their graves without that information. This is so serious....

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Pearse Doherty: I will repeat for the Tánaiste the words of Emma Mhic Mhathúna from Baile na nGall in County Kerry on the "Six One News" yesterday. The Tánaiste will be aware that Emma was diagnosed with cervical cancer in late 2016. Three years earlier she had been given the all clear following a smear test. Emma was told this week that she is one of the women who has been affected by the...

Seanad: Corporate Governance: Motion (13 May 2009)

Pearse Doherty: ...but it will apply to public hospitals first, meaning that private hospitals will be unregulated. Contracts have been awarded by the HSE to companies such as Quest, which has the contract for cervical cancer testing and which was obliged to pay over $250 million to the US Government in criminal and civil fines when the HSE had given it a clean bill of health. The whistleblower legislation...

Seanad: Cancer Screening Programme (15 Oct 2008)

Pearse Doherty: ...' lives, we need to put away party political differences and look at what is in the best interest of the patient. That is why I ensured this issue was raised in the Seanad. I refer to the national cervical screening programme which was announced at the beginning of September. I welcome the fact the programme has been up and running since 1 September but there was an announcement that...

Seanad: Health Services. (27 Sep 2007)

Pearse Doherty: ...that Letterkenny will be linked with the Sligo specialist cancer care unit. However, we must also recognise that two other parts of the puzzle are missing. The first is screening for breast, cervical and prostate cancers, and the second is radiation. A radiation oncology unit can be developed in the north west. The Northern Ireland Assembly reconvened in May. The Government made a...