Results 1-20 of 101 for cervical speaker:James Reilly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programme (7 May 2013)

James Reilly: CervicalCheck, the National Cervical Screening Programme was introduced in 2008 and offers free smear tests to women aged 25 - 60. The decision to offer smear tests to women aged 25 and over was made following very careful consideration of the benefits to the population and the potential risks to individual women. This involved both Irish and international experts in cervical cancer and...

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

James Reilly: CervicalCheck, the National Cervical Screening Programme was introduced in 2008 and offers free smear tests to women aged 25 - 60. The decision to offer smear tests to women aged 25 and over was made following very careful consideration of the benefits to the population and the potential risks to individual women. This involved both Irish and international experts in cervical cancer and...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (8 Apr 2008)

James Reilly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to debate the following urgent matter, namely the serious situation regarding cervical screening in Ireland and the reported plans of the Minister for Health and Children to outsource the reading of all 300,000 cervical smears outside this State to another continent, causing the closure of all Irish cervical smear laboratories and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (9 Apr 2014)

James Reilly: CervicalCheck, the National Cervical Screening Programme, was introduced in 2008 and offers free smear tests to women aged 25 - 60. The decision to limit smear tests to women aged 25 and over was made following careful consideration of the risks of cervical cancer and the benefits of population screening, based on the examination of evidence by both Irish and international experts. In that...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Apr 2008)

James Reilly: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the reported plans to outsource the reading of all 300,000 cervical smears outside this State to another continent, causing the closure of all cervical smear laboratories here and the consequent loss of more than 100 highly skilled specialised jobs involved in the teaching and reading of cervical smears at a time of...

Hospitals Building Programme. (4 Nov 2009)

James Reilly: I supported the Minister on cervical checks. I supported her cervical vaccine.

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 May 2008)

James Reilly: ...Health and Children if she will confirm that she or the Health Service Executive has recently entered into five year leasing agreements for upgrading and supply of two imager machines for reading cervical smear tests for St. James's-Coombe Hospitals and Rotunda-Beaumont at a cost of €1 million per machine totalling €2 million; the use these machines will be put to over the next five...

Order of Business (Resumed) (13 May 2010)

James Reilly: ...in section B is the health information Bill. When will it be brought before the House? It is an important and integral part of any national screening or vaccination programme, such as the cervical vaccination, that we have a unique patient identifier. That is part of the Bill, and a lot of things have been held up as a consequence. The Minister plans to start only a pilot programme on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (27 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: CervicalCheck, the National Cervical Screening Programme, is a Government funded screening programme which is provided free of charge to recipients. CervicalCheck is available to over 1.1 million eligible women aged from 25 to 60 years and it aims to reduce the incidence of, and mortality from, cervical cancer by detecting changes in the cells of the cervix before they become cancerous. ...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (12 Jul 2011)

James Reilly: ...as cancer of the cervix. Gardasil which is the HPV vaccine used in the HSE's vaccination programme protects against HPV types 6,11, 16 and 18. Types 16 and 18 are responsible for 7 out of 10 cervical cancers and Types 6 and 11 are responsible for more than 90% of genital warts. The vaccination programme will, therefore, protect girls from developing 7 out of 10 cervical cancers. The...

Private Health Insurance. (16 Dec 2008)

James Reilly: ...many have calculated that as much as €15 million will accrue to the Exchequer as a consequence of this levy. In that circumstance, and in a year when we cannot vaccinate our young women against cervical cancer at a cost of €10 million, I hoped that this money, at least, might have been ring-fenced for health services rather than have it go back into the Exchequer. Can the Minister...

Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: ...year old girls to commence in September 2009. She stated that she had considered all the advice available to her of the potential public health benefits of the HPV vaccination in the prevention of cervical cancer and the wider policy implications of its possible introduction into the national immunisation programme. She said: I accept the expert advice that the introduction of a...

Written Answers — Cancer Incidence: Cancer Incidence (1 Dec 2011)

James Reilly: ..., mortality and five-year relative survival. While it is welcome that the report mentions notable increases in breast cancer survival rates in Ireland, it also shows that survival rates for cervical, breast and colorectal cancer lag behind the OECD average, with the five-year survival rate for cervical cancer being the lowest in the OECD 16. These data refer to cancers detected in 2004 or...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (Resumed) (12 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: ...the name of that agency, HIQA, the Health Information and Quality Authority. It states very clearly that out of 10,074 pre-cancers, 3,680 can be averted. It states that out of 200 cases of cervical cancer annually, 111 can be averted. It states that out of 93 deaths a year, 52 can be averted. That means 52 women will not die if this vaccine is put in place. How can the Minister ignore...

Vaccination Programme: Motion (11 Nov 2008)

James Reilly: I move: That Dáil Éireann: noting: the findings of the Health Information and Quality Authority whereby the introduction of the HPV cervical cancer vaccination programme could see a 34 per cent reduction in pre-cancers, a 56 per cent reduction in cervical cancer and a 56 per cent reduction in deaths from cervical cancer; that the total cost of introducing the vaccine is estimated to be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programme (29 Jan 2013)

James Reilly: CervicalCheck, the national cervical screening programme is available to over 1.1 million eligible women aged 25 to 60 years. CervicalCheck aims to reduce the incidence of and mortality from cervical cancer by detecting changes in the cells of the cervix before they become cancerous. It is a priority for the National Cancer Screening Service (NCSS) to ensure that its programmes are...

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: Roll out a cervical screening programme first?

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: What about cervical screening?

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date cervical screening will become available nationally; the reason this was not made available by the end of 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2926/08]

Order of Business (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: A report appears today in the Irish Independent about Quest Diagnostics, the company that is to be awarded the cytology contract for between 300,000 and 500,000 smears as part of our cervical screening programme.