Results 1-20 of 28 for cervical speaker:Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin

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

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Emma Mhic Mhathúna and other brave women. Recent and current issues I am working on, which have proved to me why I should have no confidence in the Minister and in the Government, include: the cervical cancer scandal; the urgent need of approval of Spinraza; the in loco parentisclause; the unprecedented waiting lists for children for the assessment of needs; the impending closures of...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...lame-duck economics ruled the day. Look now at the real cost of those decisions. Ruth Morrissey is currently in the High Court taking a case against the HSE and two laboratories over alleged misreading of her cervical smear tests. There is now a question mark over whether the slide attributed to Ms Morrissey was hers at all. This is outrageous. This woman is extremely ill and she...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 Dec 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...as late as June 1962. This pattern is all too familiar, with similar scandals such as the anti-D product, haemophiliacs' contaminated blood products, transvaginal mesh and, most recently, the cervical cancer screening scandal. We react far too late when these scandals are discovered and then treat the victims disgracefully. We impose the weight of the State upon them to prevent them...

Mandatory Open Disclosure: Motion (15 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The events, circumstances and life changing results that have been uncovered over the past three weeks with regard to the cervical cancer screening tests scandal have shaken Ireland to the core. In November 1990, Ireland moved progressively forward by electing its first female President, Mary Robinson. In her acceptance speech, Mrs. Robinson specifically thanked the women of Ireland for...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...to put on the record that she has done the women of Ireland a most heroic service. Ten years ago in this House I stated my concerns, on behalf of Sinn Féin, about the process of privatising cervical cancer screening tests. That concern, unfortunately, rings true today and with the most distressing of consequences for so many women. Questions remain and I would like them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the scrutiny of the Health Products Regulatory Authority of Ireland, HPRA? The REGRET organisation represents the parents of those young girls who have had adverse consequences to the vaccine for cervical cancer. In the context of the PIP breast reconstruction and enhancement products, the HPV vaccine and many others - I did not write down a list in advance - who takes an overview on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programme (22 May 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: 247. To ask the Minister for Health if he will extend the cervical screening programme to women under the age of 25 years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24540/13]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Vaccine (HPV) and Meningococcal Group B Vaccine: Discussion (20 Dec 2012)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...pertinent. We have heard the argument as to why Gardasil should not be employed as it is, but will Ms Byrne or another witness elaborate on its understood success? Can we point to a reduction in cervical cancer cases as a consequence of its application across the cohort of young women to whom it has been given? That is critical information which would be of interest and help to the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (25 May 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 207: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to the fact that at least 40,000 letters were returned to the cervical cancer screening programme in March and April 2010 due to fact that they were addressed incorrectly or because the addressees had moved; if the database in question is used for other purposes by the Health Service Executive or...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (19 Jan 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 389: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if her attention has been drawn to new research showing that the incidence of cervical cancer in British women aged 20 to 24 years and 25 to 29 years has increased since the screening age in Britain was raised to 25 years, without any corresponding increase in the other age groups; if similar studies are under way here; her views on...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...to defend this decision — I listened to her contribution earlier on the monitor. She has repeatedly tried to make people believe it was somehow a choice between continuing the rollout of the cervical cancer screening programme or introducing the HPV vaccination programme. This is completely wrong and deceptive on two counts. First, screening is not a substitute for vaccination. The...

Cancer Services: Motion (Resumed) (21 May 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...removed democratic accountability in toto. The Minister for Health and Children would rather listen to corporate executives in the private health business and her HSE has awarded the contract for cervical cancer tests to Quest Diagnostics, a US company that has an unacceptably high rate of errors and has been convicted of fraud. Not only are our health services being privatised but jobs...

Health Services: Motion (5 Feb 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...other specific and pressing health issues if time allowed but I will conclude with just one. The Irish Family Planning Association revealed last month that the number of Irish women dying from cervical cancer continues to increase every year, despite the fact that this disease is entirely preventable through screening and vaccination. There is still no sign of a national screening...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 449: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when a decision will be made on provision of the cervical cancer vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2208/08]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (30 Jan 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 448: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the scheduled rollout of the National Cervical Cancer Screening Programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2207/08]

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...services is unravelled. When the Dáil debated the cancer services crisis on 7 November, I highlighted the concerns of the Well Woman organisation over the ongoing outsourcing of smear tests for cervical cancer to the United States for analysis and the absence of any clear information as to what cytology laboratories will be used to underpin the national cervical screening programme from...

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: In February this year the Minister announced the introduction of the cervical cancer vaccine available free to medical card holders and young girls presenting in the 11-13 age group. What is the opinion of the Minister of recent criticism by Dr. Kevin Connolly, a paediatrician and member of the national immunisation advisory committee, of the delay in determination of the safety of the...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (8 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 73: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the detail of the cervical cancer screening programme, scheduled for rollout throughout the State from January 2008, particularly with regard to eligibility, cost and screening intervals; if she is satisfied that this programme will fully comply with international best practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [27838/07]

Cancer Services: Statements (Resumed) (7 Nov 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...and good management that we were promised in the brave new world of the HSE heralded by the Minister on the floor of the Chamber? The crisis in mammography is mirrored in the situation with cervical screening. The Well Woman organisation expressed concern over the ongoing outsourcing of smear tests to the United States for analysis and at the absence of clear information as to what...

Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...northern half of the island. This is compounded by the failure to ensure full cross-Border co-operation in cancer services. The Government has failed to establish national screening services for cervical cancer and other cancers such as prostate cancer. The Government has failed to heed the testimony of current and former patients and staff at St. Luke's Hospital in Dublin on the need...