Results 1-8 of 8 for cervical speaker:Billy Kelleher

An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (9 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: ...are saying if anything happens to a woman and she, for whatever reason, cannot continue with the pregnancy, she has to leave this country, leave the State and seek a termination abroad. Do we say to a woman who has been diagnosed with cervical cancer, that she cannot have treatment in this country? Do we say that she first of all has to leave this country, go to England, terminate the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 368. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women that have had one or more cervical check smear tests in a primary care setting to date in 2017. [53819/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (14 Dec 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the percentage of eligible women with at least one satisfactory cervical check screening in a five year period. [53820/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (1 Jun 2017)

Billy Kelleher: 173. To ask the Minister for Health his views on HIQA’s recommendation that women should be screened for cervical cancer every five years instead of at three yearly intervals as at present. [26445/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Dec 2016)

Billy Kelleher: 92. To ask the Minister for Health the measures he is taking to address the fall in the take up of the human papilloma virus, HPV, vaccine; the estimated number of deaths annually from cervical cancer that would result from a halving of the uptake of the vaccine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38013/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 Apr 2014)

Billy Kelleher: 179. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing free cervical smear testing for those aged under 25 years following concern about the prohibitive fee of €80; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16942/14]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: HIV-AIDS Strategy: Discussion (5 Dec 2013)

Billy Kelleher: ...be user friendly and informative. We never discuss the topic of cancer in the context of sexually transmitted diseases. Why are they not mentioned when we are, for example, discussing oral or cervical cancer? I presume we should be conscious of these issues when speaking about sexually transmitted diseases. We must be more proactive in education, but any education or advertising...

Health Services. (23 Nov 2005)

Billy Kelleher: ...2007. Government Deputies took a great deal of political heat in that regard because people were very concerned about screening for breast cancer, just as they are concerned now about screening for cervical cancer. People know that if preventative treatment is available or if cancer can be detected in time, there will not be such a high level of demand for forms of intervention like...