Results 1-14 of 14 for cervical speaker:Catherine Murphy

Public Accounts Committee: 2017 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 15: Hepatitis C Treatment in Ireland
Management of Medical Negligence (22 Nov 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...be something wrong if they had not. As I stated at the committee last week and on a couple of occasions in the Dáil, some things have not been learned.That women are still seeking copies of their CervicalCheck slides indicates that the system is still very legalistic and that the affected person seems secondary, at least in regard to getting medical information. There was a recent...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Nov 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ..., was held over. It concerns the national director of the HSE. I raise this matter because somebody contacted me and because it is something we have all raised about the original slides in the cervical screening programme not being released to the women. We were given assurances. The contract for the two laboratories states that the ownership of the slides resides with the HSE and they...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (6 Nov 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to raise an issue relating to the cervical screening scandal. I was contacted by the husband of one of the 221 women who have been caught up in the scandal. He told me that the majority of women who requested their slides have not got them six months after they requested them. Some time ago I looked at the MedLab Pathology and Quest Diagnostics contracts and raised the matter at the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (25 Oct 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 261. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he has taken to introduce legislation and policy on mandatory open disclosure, independent of the patient safety Bill and in respect of the cervical smear scandal; if he will provide a start and end date including full disclosure on the 1,800 smears yet to be audited; the breakdown of the new assessment packages being negotiated with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 23: Accounts of the National Treasury Management Agency
National Treasury Management Agency: Financial Statements 2017 (12 Jul 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...liability was €2.6 billion, but the figure today is €2.7 billion and Mr. O'Kelly stated that it is between €2.5 billion and €3 billion while there have been 40 claims to date in respect of cervical screening process. Is that the most up-to-date figure? On a previous occasion when the witnesses were before us, we were told that the agency only becomes aware...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed) (14 Jun 2018)

Catherine Murphy: In terms of the cervical cases, do the figures all relate to the 209 cases or people within the 209 cases?

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: .... They were put into a holding room. There was a mixture of people who had family who had died and women who were going to receive news that they had had a false negative and had gone on to have cervical cancer. They also talked about the social care programme that was announced last week and said they had not been contacted. This was after a catastrophic event. Have no lessons been...

Public Accounts Committee: Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency (Resumed)
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (Resumed) (17 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...respect of which court actions had been initiated. I was told that there were four in the case of BreastCheck. Are they in the same range in terms of what has emerged? There are 11 in regard to cervical screening. We do not know whether all 11 relate to the same thing. I presume they do. Have the four related to BreastCheck to do with the screening programme? In much of the...

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: I wish to ask about the incident that is very current at the moment, namely, that relating to cervical smear tests. Within that €2.2 billion, would the State Claims Agency have captured an amount that would be part of a contingent liability specifically relating to the failure that we are seeing at the moment?

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: ...not cause him any serious concern. He also talked about the requirement to manage the situation when something like this occurs in order to ensure that widespread concerns about something like the cervical screening programme are not exacerbated, which is exactly what has happened. Given the notice on this matter, which he must have read, it is very difficult to figure out why a...

Public Accounts Committee: State Claims, Management of Legal Costs and Policy on Open Disclosure
Implications of CervicalCheck Revelations
2016 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency
2016 Financial Statements of the HSE (10 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: Would the witness read that in both respects, or would he only read it in the context of the cervical screening service?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: It is wider than the cervical screening issue, which is evolving. Therefore, it should be on our work programme, and it should be around open disclosure, system failures and whether we are getting value for money when so much money is being spent on legal fees, which may be the difference in being able to provide services.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (3 May 2018)

Catherine Murphy: 197. To ask the Minister for Health the amount set aside as contingent liabilities for failures in the cervical smear programme; the funds that have been expended within the past five years; the number of persons involved in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19458/18]

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (7 Feb 2006)

Catherine Murphy: Question 229: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the high level of public concern regarding cervical cancer which was demonstrated in the petition of 55,000 signatures as presented to her on 1 February 2006, she will stop needless deaths by introducing a free nationwide screening programme for women aged 25 to 60; and if she will make a statement on the...