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Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...for national vacancies across the system and for priority services. In the context of recruitment and expansion, I will briefly reference Dr. Gabriel Scally's scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck screening programme in 2018, which included the examination of the laboratory services used by the CervicalCheck programme. Arising from recommendations of Dr. Scally's report, a strategic...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (5 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...Stephen Donnelly. Both the Minister and I are fully committed to supporting our population screening programmes which are a valuable part of our health service. I am pleased to say that the CervicalCheck programme is back screening at pre-COVID-19 levels. Furthermore, by the end of 2021, CervicalCheck had screened the same amount of people as in any other two-year period. I take this...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (5 May 2022)

Frank Feighan: ...Stephen Donnelly. The Minister for Health and I are fully committed to supporting our population health screening services, which are a valuable part of our health service. It is good to see that CervicalCheck screenings are back to pre-Covid levels. I acknowledge the effort being made by the staff at CervicalCheck, primary care services, GPs and laboratory services in achieving this...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Vaccination Programme (18 Nov 2020)

Frank Feighan: .... The HSE is committed to continuing to offer the recommended immunisations to school-aged children, with as little disruption as possible. I will pass on the Deputy's concerns regarding the cervical vaccine to the Minister for Health, Deputy Stephen Donnelly. We will be keeping abreast of developments regarding the recovery plan and the resumption of the schools-based immunisation...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Health Screening Programmes (21 Oct 2020)

Frank Feighan: .... Audit of interval cancer is a key quality assurance mechanism in assuring health authorities, patients and the public about the quality of cancer screening services. Audit processes were in place in CervicalCheck since 2010 as part of quality assurance measures. However, these were paused in 2018 following the issues which have been dealt with by the Scally report. The scoping...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (25 Sep 2020)

Frank Feighan: ...amended over time. In 2009, the national immunisation advisory committee, NIAC, recommended HPV, or human papillomavirus, vaccination for all 12 to 13-year-old girls to reduce their risk of developing cervical cancer when they are adults. In 2010, the HPV vaccination programme was introduced for all girls in the first year of secondary school. The NIAC recommended that the HPV vaccine...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Vaccination Programme (25 Sep 2020)

Frank Feighan: ...have saved thousands of lives in this country and have helped make diseases like polio and smallpox, which previously caused devastation to families and communities, largely a thing of the past. Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide and one woman dies of cervical cancer every two minutes. Almost all of the cases of cervical cancer can be attributed to HPV...

Seanad: A Strategy for Cancer Control in Ireland: Statements. (28 Jun 2006)

Frank Feighan: A woman called to my constituency office about five weeks ago. She was disturbed and agitated that there did not appear to be a co-ordinated effort with regard to cervical cancer. Her general practitioner volunteered to carry out a smear test but the general practitioner was not paid for it. She did it from the goodness of her heart. My constituent believed there should be a proper system in...