Results 1-13 of 13 for cervical speaker:Michael McGrath

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Sep 2021)

Michael McGrath: ...are required, then of course the Minister is open to any such changes to improve the system that is there. We do not want women to have to go to court to get justice on any matters relating to CervicalCheck. We can all agree in this House on the paramount importance of protecting this service, which is now back up and running. More than 6,000 women are detected and referred for early...

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency Data (26 Jun 2019)

Michael McGrath: 145. To ask the Minister for Health the costs incurred to date by the State Claims Agency; the award levels and legal costs, respectively, in respect of the cervical screening programme; the number of ongoing cases involving the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27093/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (26 Jun 2019)

Michael McGrath: 146. To ask the Minister for Health if he has the authority to direct the State Claims Agency to make a particular payment by way of an award in an individual case in respect of the cervical screening programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27094/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency Data (2 Apr 2019)

Michael McGrath: 245. To ask the Minister for Health the number of claims on hand by the State Claims Agency in relation to late diagnosis and missed diagnosis in relation to failings in the cervical cancer screening programme; the number of cases settled; the amount paid out in claims to date; and the legal costs of the cases. [15324/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (15 Jan 2019)

Michael McGrath: 704. To ask the Minister for Health the backlog of cervical cancer screening smears awaiting examination; the wait time; the steps he is taking to clear the backlog in view of the anxiety the waiting time is causing for many women; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1093/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (7 Sep 2018)

Michael McGrath: 728. To ask the Minister for Health the expected waiting time for results for women that have cervical smear tests carried out under the CervicalCheck programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35918/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Records (14 Jun 2018)

Michael McGrath: 156. To ask the Minister for Health the number of individual medical files that have been requested from the HSE or the national cervical cancer screening programme in connection with the work of the national cervical screening programme; the number of complete files that have been provided to the patient or their representative in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018, in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (29 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 55. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to establish a redress scheme for the women and surviving families affected by the cervical cancer screening scandal; the role of the State Claims Agency in this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21619/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (22 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: ...Department to ensure that significant policy issues of public interest are escalated to the level of his office in view of the fact that three separate memos in March and July 2016 concerning the cervical cancer screening programme were not brought to his attention; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22108/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme (17 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 198. To ask the Minister for Health the person or body that will be eligible for the redress scheme being set up in respect of the cervical cancer screening scandal; the approach with regard to indemnification from the US laboratories in this regard; the definition of a normal error in terms of a false negative smear test results and therefore possibly outside of redress; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Administration (17 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the additional supports available to women that previously had cervical cancer following a false negative smear test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21889/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform, and Taoiseach: State Claims Agency: Discussion (8 May 2018)

Michael McGrath: I have a big problem with that approach because these are women who had a smear test done in Ireland under the cervical cancer screening programme. Their samples were examined and misread, be it in Ireland or abroad, and they are being left to their own devices to take on an independent laboratory.

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (20 Jan 2011)

Michael McGrath: Question 118: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will consider a request for a cervical cancer vaccine in respect of a person (details supplied) in County Cork. [3148/11]