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Seanad: Bowel Cancer Awareness: Statements (7 Apr 2009)

David Norris: ...told me it was too late, which was awful. We know the old phrase that justice delayed is justice denied but screening denied is fatal. I will put on record some comparative statistics. We have cervical screening, which costs €42 million and breast screening at a cost of €24 million. The cost of bowel screening would be €14 million or €15 million, which is comparatively small....

Seanad: Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

David Norris: ...by animal and human sewage. This is partly because of the policy of once-off housing that was very widely supported by rural Members. That must be examined. The principal issue is that of cervical cancer and I strongly support Senator Fitzgerald on this. It is extraordinary that we are not prepared to pay a fraction of what we wasted on e-voting machines to save the lives of young...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

David Norris: I support Senator Fitzgerald's remarks about the deferment or cancellation of the cervical cancer vaccination programme. That is regrettable because it could, apparently, save the lives of 200 young women every year, or at least prevent them from getting cancer. It is a simple regime involving three injections, but at €600 it is costly. That means that, once again, the wealthy people in...

Seanad: Strategy for Men's Health: Statements. (25 Jan 2006)

David Norris: .... Thanks to activists such as Germaine Greer and so on, that picture has radically changed and we now have a situation where the entire community is aware of the specific vulnerability of women to cervical cancer, breast cancer and so on. Men are unlikely to suffer from cervical cancer but a small proportion of men suffer from breast cancer. I only discovered that recently when somebody I...

Seanad: Order of Business. (18 Feb 2004)

David Norris: I think it is appropriate to refer to a principle underlying the announcement of a very important discovery by Professor O'Leary regarding testing for cervical cancer. He seems to have made a discovery which will make the return of test results much more efficient, rapid and accurate. More important — this is a matter I have raised previously in regard to other disciplines — the most...