Results 1-20 of 35 for cervical speaker:Micheál Martin

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.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: I thank the Deputy for raising those issues. I dealt with some of these questions earlier but will deal with the specifics again. On the national cervical screening laboratory at the Coombe, the building is complete. It was completed in October. It is expected that it will become operational by the end of the year.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...for the HSE. It is working with the faculty of pathology to build the required expertise. As already stated, Dr. Cillian De Gascun was recently appointed as interim director of the national cervical screening laboratory. A lot will depend on the pace of recruitment. It is a matter of high-level expertise. Thankfully, new technologies that reduce the capacity for human error have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: Work in respect of the national cervical screening laboratory at the Coombe is under way. It will take time before it will have sufficiency to offer full national coverage, although I would point out - and we have to be objective as best as we can - that Dr. Scally did not find, in respect of the particular lab, that there was a higher or lower incidence than elsewhere. Be that as it may,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Nov 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...passing and that her legacy will be more effective and respectful treatment for the women who come after her. That is extremely important and is an issue we want to follow through on. On the CervicalCheck programme, the ultimate goal, supported by Vicky and many involved in the 221+ group, is population-based screening, the continuation of the cervical screening programme and...

Working Group of Committee Chairmen: Public Policy Matters: Engagement with the Taoiseach (12 May 2022)

Micheál Martin: ...The private sector has got an insight into certain potential movers and shakers. I am not saying that is the case with these individuals, but it is a reality and we need to take it on board. With regard to cervical testing, I do not have a specific timeline. We would probably never have had a CervicalCheck programme if the decision had not been made to go outside but that leads to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Dec 2020)

Micheál Martin: In the first instance, we should draw a differential between a screening programme and diagnostic procedures in themselves. That is very important, and in some respects, the original cervical screening programme gave a sense that if one had come through the screening programme, one was okay, whereas we know that is not the case. All screening programmes are general population screening...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...in favour of developing our own capacity on the testing front. We hope, with the passage of time and being in a position to deal with Covid once and for all, that we can then restore the national cervical screening programme, because its overall impact has been to prevent many cancers and prevent many women from dying. We cannot undermine that kind of work, which was ongoing prior to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: The national cervical screening programme is responsible for ensuring quality and providing regular oversight of the screening programme itself and the test.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...in setting up BreastCheck. That took quite some time - four years or more - and we built it up nationally to world-class standards. I recall the huge waiting lists for testing for symptomatic cervical cancer patients. They were waiting for a long time. Outsourcing at that stage became an intervention that almost eliminated those waiting lists. Following on from that, the whole idea of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...were made in good faith. As the Deputy knows, the previous Government agreed that the High Court judge, Mr. Justice Charles Meenan, would be requested to review, in the cases of women affected by CervicalCheck issues, mechanisms that would avoid, where possible, women and their families having to go to court. That is the objective of the Government. Emerging from that report, a tribunal...

Death of Ruth Morrissey: Expressions of Sympathy (21 Jul 2020)

Micheál Martin: ...in a very good-humoured, kind and touching way. She fought a long, hard battle with her illness and also fought very hard for her own rights to be vindicated in court. Ruth, along with many other brave women brought together by their diagnosis of this terrible illness, worked to highlight diagnostic failings in this country's CervicalCheck screening programme so that others would not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2019)

Micheál Martin: ...group for women who have been involved in this controversy. I asked the Taoiseach how many more Bernadette Kielys are out there. There is correspondence going back to 2016 and 2017 between CervicalCheck and Bernadette Kiely's consultants. Some of the letters have a familiar ring to them. It is interesting that a letter to her consultant stated that a review of colposcopy was conducted...

Acknowledgement and Apology to Women and Families affected by CervicalCheck Debacle: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Micheál Martin: On behalf of the Fianna Fáil Party, I strongly support and welcome the apology by the Government for what women and their families were put through as a result of the cervical cancer screening scandal. The incredible and avoidable stress that they and their families have had to endure, as well as too many serious delays in treatment, have quite rightly been a major concern for the Irish...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Jul 2019)

Micheál Martin: 303. To ask the Minister for Health the inquiries made as to whether the entire cervical screening service should be re-established to ensure an entirely integrated service for HPV, cytology, colposcopy and histopathology; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30374/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (18 Jun 2019)

Micheál Martin: 324. To ask the Minister for Health if he and his officials received the second Scally report before the contract was extended to include all of the extra cervical tests done in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24926/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: Last week I referred to the fact that as many as 80,000 women were waiting for cervical smear test results. There is an enormous backlog, largely because of a decision taken by the Minister for Health last April to offer a free test to every woman who requested one. For about three months we have been seeking to ascertain the extent to which the Minister sought, received or ignored official...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Apr 2019)

Micheál Martin: I am sure the Taoiseach will agree that over the last ten years the national CervicalCheck programme has made a very significant contribution to public health and that it has been effective in reducing cervical cancer rates since its inception. More than 1 million women aged between 25 and 60 years were screened in its first ten years. The participation rate is close to 80%, which is on a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Inquiry (26 Mar 2019)

Micheál Martin: ...of applications received, granted and refused, respectively, for the ex gratia payments of €2,000 to the 221 women in particular to allow them to cover the cost of an independent review of their cervical smear slides which determines whether the readings fall into the limitations of screening or were negligently misread; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13248/19]

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (20 Feb 2019)

Micheál Martin: ...in the country who wanted one and about who advised him on the decision. I have been subject to obfuscation since I first began asking these questions in January. As a result of that decision, CervicalCheck has an enormous backlog of up to 80,000 people waiting up to 27 weeks to receive reports on their tests, while thousands of women have received letters to tell them to come back in...