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

Order of Business. (24 Feb 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: While there is ongoing consultation following receipt of the report on the roll-out of cervical cancer screening, is there a prospect that the Health (Amendment) Bill will contain a provision that will ensure cervical cancer screening is available on an interim basis for women holders of doctor-only medical cards?

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (11 Oct 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 138: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the medical basis for the Irish cervical screening programme's recommendation that smear tests be carried out every five years; her views on whether it is advisable to recommend more frequent smear tests in view of the unusually high rates of cervical cancer here, in line with other countries such as Canada, where a two to three year...

Cancer Screening Programme. (23 Mar 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...unions, professional bodies and women's networks, on 24 February for a State-wide pre-cancer screening programme? The latest figures I have relate to 2000. There were 1,019 new cases of in situ cervical cancer, that is, a pre-cancerous state, 193 cases of invasive cancer and 65 deaths. Does the Minister agree comprehensive screening leading to early detection and treatment can and will...

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...

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...

Cancer Screening Programme. (23 Mar 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 4: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if she will initiate a State-wide cervical pre-cancer screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9543/05]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (28 Nov 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Question 279: To ask the Minister for Health and Children when it is intended to restore the free cervical cancer screening unit in a health centre (details supplied) in Dublin 22; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40355/06]

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]

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]

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]

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...

Order of Business. (8 Mar 2006)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Women's Day — I am sure the Tánaiste is aware of the report published last week by the National Cancer Registry, Women and Cancer 1994-2001. Given that the report recommends that breast and cervical cancer screening programmes must be rolled out across——

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...

Order of Business (3 Jul 2007)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The Dublin Well Woman Centre and others have raised serious concerns about cervical smear tests being sent to the United States for testing in laboratories there. The Minister for Health and Children dealt with questions in the House last week before this matter became public. In the absence of the Minister and the Minister of State, will the Taoiseach provide an opportunity to address the...

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...

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...

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...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...behalf of Sinn Féin. I thank my Fine Gael colleagues for the opportunity to speak. The Irish Cancer Society is to be commended for its current campaign which calls for the roll-out of a national cervical cancer screening programme. On the day the Dáil rose for its Easter recess, 23 March, I questioned the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, on this issue. In...

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...