Results 1-16 of 16 for cervical speaker:Brendan Howlin

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

Brendan Howlin: This is Cervical Cancer Prevention Week. The Tánaiste is right; all of us in this House support medical screening for the early detection of cancer and other diseases. The medical evidence that screening saves lives is overwhelming and we all need to ensure that we encourage men and women to avail of all screening opportunities. In that context, it is essential that we and the public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: I welcome the Taoiseach's response and I thank him for it but he and I both know that the current position where women suffering from the same form of cervical cancer are treated differently is not sustainable. It is only a matter of time before they or their legal representatives will go into the court to demand that the constitutional requirement for equal treatment be vindicated. Will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (27 Nov 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The cancer treatment drug pembrolizumab, Pembro, has received much public attention because of the Government's decision to make it available to survivors of the CervicalCheck scandal, the 221 group, people like Vicky Phelan. Vicky Phelan has spoken publicly about how pembrolizumab has had a significant effect onher tumours and has given her a much better quality of life. The drug has been...

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...an attempt at a con job about which we have to be very clear. The campaign is drawing to a close but whatever the result, the focus will remain on women's health. The scandal that has engulfed CervicalCheck shows a need for the Government to go back to basics on public health information. Through this scandal we have learned more about the science of screening and the limits of that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...surprise to many people. The Taoiseach explained why this is the case and that the new HPV test has 100% accuracy because it tests for the HPV virus but that the virus is the cause of only 70% of cervical cancers. Will the missed rate improve substantially or, as I have read in some publications, will the existing screening continue in parallel with HPV screening to significantly...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: As the Taoiseach has just told us, the Cabinet discussed today the draft terms of reference of the scoping inquiry into the scandal of non-disclosure in CervicalCheck. Reports indicated that the scoping inquiry will look at the outsourcing of services and the background to non-disclosure. However, the grave concern and public alarm about CervicalCheck and the audit testing remains, and we...

Questions on Promised Legislation (2 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...in the coming days. The Taoiseach and the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, yesterday stated that the HSE is to introduce a new screening test from October. The current cytology test used by CervicalCheck has a low sensitivity of between 60% and 75% and, as a consequence, produces a not insignificant number of false negative results. It is to be replaced by a new HPV test which...

Leaders' Questions (1 May 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Across Ireland today there are many thousands of women who are terrified following the revelations about the CervicalCheck screening programme. Following an audit of women diagnosed with cervical cancer, we know that 208 women should have been told and had earlier interventions. It beggars belief that 162 of these women were not told, and, from what has been said today, may not yet have...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Apr 2018)

Brendan Howlin: Other Deputies have already raised the disturbing and shocking case involving CervicalCheck and Mrs. Vicky Phelan. The HPV vaccine protects young girls from developing cervical cancer. The vaccine also protects boys against HPV-related cancers later in life. This House discussed a Labour Party motion on these matters some two weeks ago. That motion was passed. One of the elements of the...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: .... Millions of people are alive because of vaccination. The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harald zur Hausen for his work on identifying HPV as a cause of cervical cancer. His discoveries in the 1970s and through the 1980s were groundbreaking as they went against the dogma of the time on how cancer was caused. There are more than 100 types of HPV,...

Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Feb 2018)

Brendan Howlin: The programme for Government makes a commitment to improve cancer prevention and treatment. The Tánaiste will know this is European cervical cancer prevention week, which is a critical issue. The Irish Family Planning Association and CervicalCheck are running their annual Pearl of Wisdom campaign. Each year 260 women in Ireland are diagnosed with cervical cancer and up to 70 lives are...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2010)

Brendan Howlin: Question 235: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if a parent who is now unemployed and who paid a total of €760 during 2009 to have their two teenage daughters vaccinated against cervical cancer will be given a refund in view of the decision to fund a cervical cancer screening programme for teenage girls; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5622/10]

Adjournment Debate Matters (20 Oct 2009)

Brendan Howlin: ...and appliances bought through voluntary donations; (13) Deputy Michael McGrath - the roll-out of primary care centres in Cork city and county; (14) Deputy Deirdre Clune - referral procedures to the cervical check national screening service; (15) Deputy Noel J. Coonan - the future of the Tipperary Institute of Education; and (16) Deputy Joe McHugh - the need for the Minister for Transport...

Adjournment Debate Matters (6 Nov 2008)

Brendan Howlin: ...effective fire safety checks on all apartment complexes on a quarterly basis; (2) Deputy Joe Costello — the need for the Minister for Health and Children to reverse her decision to suspend the cervical cancer vaccine programme for 12 year old girls; (3) Deputy Joanna Tuffy — the provision of permanent accommodation in respect of Gaelscoil Eiscir Riada, Lucan, County Dublin; (4) Deputy...

Adjournment Debate Matters (4 Jul 2007)

Brendan Howlin: ...) Deputy Martin Ferris — the compensation package for drift net fishermen; (9) Deputy Aengus Ó Snodaigh — the concerns raised by the Dublin Well Woman Centre and others on the sending of Irish cervical smear tests for processing in US laboratories; (10) Deputy Kieran O'Donnell — the need to outline when funding will be put in place for the urgent implementation of the €53 million...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (29 Mar 2007)

Brendan Howlin: ...30,000 backlogged smear tests waiting to be examined here; if she will confirm reports that these backlogged tests are to be sent to the US to be processed; her views on plans for a national cervical cancer screening programme; her further views on whether without the means to process tests that a national programme is meaningless; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12067/07]