Results 1-20 of 26 for cervical speaker:Mattie McGrath

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (22 Feb 2024)

Mattie McGrath: ...that is funded by the HSE. I do not have the exact details but it has to do with cancer research. When we think back to Vicky Phelan and the other ladies who had misdiagnoses and delays with cervical smears that Dr. Holohan oversaw. Now he has been appointed to cancer research.

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Mattie McGrath: ...enough. The Government has failed to respect her wishes and requests. There has been nothing short of deceit and false reassurances, which is difficult to swallow. After the death of her fellow cervical cancer sufferer, the late Ruth Morrissey, Vicky Phelan wrote two years ago: I don't want your apologies. I don't want your tributes. I don't want your aide de campat my funeral. I...

Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (14 Jul 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...Alumina plant and the Geoghegan family in Limerick. They had issues with Dr. Holohan and the now Taoiseach, Deputy Micheál Martin. There was no public inquiry into what happened. What about the cervical smear tests and many other issues? Mind games are being played now. A tweet was just sent to me with Dr. Holohan's statement this evening. Is what we do in the House irrelevant?...

Impact of Covid-19 on People with Disabilities within the Education and Health Sectors: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Mattie McGrath: ...has been driven into us. We see that now in the debate on antigen testing. This will all come out in the international investigation I am calling for and we will see the gaping failures. We will be reminded then of the cervical cancer smear tests and what happened in that regard. It is shocking, but above all, the issue before the House needs to be dealt with because these people...

Cancer Screening: Statements (3 Nov 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...have. Since the first lockdown in March, all procedures have been backed up, with people not attending, not being called or unable to get in. Damage is being done with all kinds of cancer, including cervical, breast and prostate cancer. Doctors and other people are telling us of the damage to physical and mental health, but the Government is not listening and has not learned anything. ...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2020: Second Stage (23 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...as well as being out in that war with that great patriot Liam Ó Loingsigh. Those people gave their lives and now the Government wants to take life from people. There has not been a word about the suicide deaths, cancer deaths, the scandal of the cervical cancer smear tests or the many other scandals that are brewing in the hospital system because of the inept, inadequate,...

Roadmap for Living with Covid-19: Statements (1 Oct 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...Are we just cocooning here and saying we know best? We have a bad history with the HSE. The CMO, Dr. Tony Houlihan, is coming in back and I hope his wife is well but he has a bad history in the HSE with the cervical smear deaths and the death sentences perpetrated on women. We have not got a great history on a plethora of issues. Consider the waste on the national children's hospital...

Health (General Practitioner Service and Alteration of Criteria for Eligibility) Bill 2020: Second Stage (Resumed) (23 Jul 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...be done in the HSE. I praise the staff who have always worked hard, especially with Covid. This will have a significant impact on our health service. It was bad enough as it was. The impact on people waiting for cervical smear tests, breast checks, bowel screening or whatever it is is substantial since those have all been put back. Procedures for children requiring orthodontic...

Vote 38 - Health (Revised) (30 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...not get the facility open for mental health beds. I want it to be kept open when this is finished to provide mental health beds. We need mental health services. The Covid-19 crisis has made the need enormous. On top of that there is the cervical smear programme, BreastCheck and the men's prostate screening. The backlogs are going to be astonishing. We seem to have money. The...

Emergency Bed Capacity: Statements (24 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...in the south east is just not good enough, as my colleague from Waterford mentioned. All lives matter to us in the south east as well. I also refer to the whole situation regarding BreastCheck, cervical checks and many more screening services that are so badly needed. A woman contacted me this evening about BreastCheck. She has two young children, is 34 years old and is hugely...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (11 Jun 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...be kept open as a hospital? There should be no more lame excuses that it was not fit, that people could not go up the stairs and whatever else. That cannot be allowed. I refer to BreastCheck, the cervical smear tests and all the other tests. People are waiting anxiously. We see the Minister's former leader advocating for the hospice, and fair dues to him. People with prostate...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...of 102 beds. Its counterpart in Dublin is probably worse. There were six beds occupied one week, 25 another week, 37 the next week and 23 the next. This is shocking. Women there are waiting for cervical smear tests. There are all kinds of checks to be done and private consultants to do them, but they are not being done. The Government is fighting and wrangling over accounts. What is...

Covid-19 (Taoiseach): Statements (27 May 2020)

Mattie McGrath: ...is an absolute shame. We had to take over the private hospitals and I supported that, but for how long? When are we going to give them back and allow surgery of all kinds to go ahead for people? There are no cervical cancer smear tests taking place. There are no tests of any kind happening. Many people with serious diagnoses will require treatment and everything else. I said to the...

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...all of the laboratories running for cover and we see the totally reckless behaviour of the private service to which these tests were farmed out. It is uncaring. As the legislation states, the CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill will do what the Taoiseach said "in respect of the hearing and determination, outside of the court process, of claims arising from acts or omissions arising from...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Mattie McGrath: It is with a heavy heart that I stand here to comment on this. I compliment Dr. Scally on doing this work and coming forward with this supplementary report and the scoping inquiry into the CervicalCheck screening programme which was just a fiasco. We now know that the latest Scally report identified that the number of laboratories involved in CervicalCheck was greater than originally...

Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care)(Amendment) Bill 2019: Second Stage (10 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ..., including, for example, the eagerness of the legal eagles to become involved in many cases in an over-zealous fashion. In some cases there is malpractice, for example, in the case of the cervical smear tests, although it did not involve clinicians in the main but a systems failure. The Tánaiste was trying to explain to the House about a systems failure in the case of the national...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (9 Apr 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...and supply agreement. The pipe is jerking but the water is still going through. It is a case of "I am all right, Jack". The Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, is fine. There is no need to worry about the cervical cancer or the children's hospital, on which there is a report out today. The Government has a free pass to do what it likes, but that is no good to the man who wants bread...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...a parent, waiting a year and a half for a simple operation while their child's spine twists and turns. Another tough job is that of the women and families who have been so desperately affected by the cervical smear scandal. There is also the matter of the reports of failings in audiology services. There has been scandal after scandal, week in, week out. Deputy Harty mentioned the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...the national children's hospital - I railed against the proposed location here but none of the parties supported me - is draining every project dry. The Minister is not accountable to anybody for the cervical cancer scandal, for the cost overrun on the national children's hospital or for anything else. The hospital in Tipperary has the highest number of patients on trolleys last week...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jan 2019)

Mattie McGrath: ...structure with a failing and sprawling organisation? The Bill seeks to make the new CEO accountable to the nine-member board. Was Mr. Tony O'Brien ever held accountable? No, he was not. Look at the cervical cancer scare. Were those who presided over the slow death of the health service ever held accountable? No, they were not. There was some accountability, as Deputy Kelly said,...