Results 1-20 of 22 for cervical speaker:Liam Twomey

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (11 May 2011)

Liam Twomey: Question 161: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if he has conducted a cost benefit analysis and a value for money audit on the national cervical cancer screening programme's contract with a company (details supplied) taking into account the loss of jobs in our own health sector; the number of repeat smears requested within a three to six month timeframe; the number of false...

Seanad: Diabetes Treatment and Management: Motion. (27 Oct 2010)

Liam Twomey: ...be honest about what we are going to do in this regard. Prevention is not just about a few advertisements on television. It is also about a screening programme. Just look at BreastCheck and the cervical cancer check programme, and how they have changed the mindset among patients that these diseases exist and something needs to be done about them. It is the same for diabetes. If there...

Seanad: Diabetic Retinopathy Screening Programme: Statements (23 Apr 2009)

Liam Twomey: ...to keep us going for another decade. We are, to some degree, putting the cart before the horse. It is amazing that we have only two primary screening programmes in this country, those for cervical and breast cancer. If one considers all the diseases and illnesses in the health care system which can be effectively screened, it is amazing we do not have primary screening for any other...

Seanad: Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (12 Dec 2008)

Liam Twomey: ...that many other things we took for granted will be taken from patients as part of prudent and fair financial planning in the future. Let us ask parents of children who should be vaccinated against cervical cancer what they think of the current prudent and fair financial planning. Government policy clearly states that if money is tight, it is the poor, sick and elderly who will suffer....

Seanad: The Economy: Statements (5 Dec 2008)

Liam Twomey: ...pensions, which have been decimated, moving the focus from the banks to private enterprise and the Lisbon treaty. Much of the budget was focused on issues such as the medical card scheme, the cervical vaccine programme and substitute teachers. All these issues have been waylaid. There is no need for me to go back over them. The economy will face substantial issues until 2011. Unless we...

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2008)

Liam Twomey: Will the Leader arrange a debate on the issue of universal entitlement? This should be based on what is happening not just in regard to the medical cards but also in regard to the cervical vaccine for young girls. This is incredibly important. It was a great achievement to produce such a vaccine; it is probably the only vaccine the world has against cancer. We are denying it to our young...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Apr 2008)

Liam Twomey: ...throughout the country. Will the Leader invite the Minister for Health and Children before the House to discuss the issue raised by Senator Fidelma Healy Eames regarding the prevention of cervical cancer? The national cervical cancer screening programme plans to use laboratories abroad rather than invest in laboratories in this country, even though those laboratories abroad could...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion (26 Sep 2007)

Liam Twomey: ...Reference was made to eight hospitals but the Minister did make any clear statement of her intentions. It is a bit like BreastCheck; it gets rolled out bit by bit. The same situation applies to cervical cancer screening. Screening has not been extended beyond Limerick city in over seven years. As Fine Gael spokesperson on health, I drew up a policy on cancer screening as far back as...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the status on the roll-out of the cervical cancer screening programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [12266/07]

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: In 1997 the then Minister for Health decided to set up a cervical screening programme and in 2000 a pilot scheme was introduced in Limerick. Does the Minister accept Irish women are dying at a rate twice the European average from cervical cancer? Our cervical cancer rate is higher than the UK even though when the programme was proposed in 1997 our rate was half that of the UK. Does she...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Mar 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister is almost in agreement with my comments. The Government's commitment to the cervical screening programme is weak. No progress has been made on patient registration and the Minister has no idea how women who need smear tests will be identified. She has acknowledged the HSE has no idea what is the laboratory capacity in this regard. These are two basic issues before one...

Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: Question 84: To ask the Minister for Health and Children her views on a national cervical cancer screening programme; the role a cervical cancer vaccine may play; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6488/07]

Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: The Minister has stated the vaccine, Gardasil, would protect approximately 70% of patients from cervical cancer and that the other 30% could be protected by a national cervical cancer screening programme. When added together, those figures show that under the Government 100% of women are not being protected because a national screening programme in not in place and the vaccine, Gardasil, is...

Cancer Screening Programme. (20 Feb 2007)

Liam Twomey: ...known for years. Another point on screening is that non-attendance decreases dramatically on second and subsequent calls for attendance at any screening programme, whether it is BreastCheck or cervical screening. The problem is there is no nationwide screening programme for anything. The Minister has let everybody down with regard to screening. That is the point we need to make. The...

Cancer Services: Motion. (31 Jan 2007)

Liam Twomey: ...failure. She tried to say that her announcement of the appointment of the first board of the national cancer screening service was an achievement. The board will investigate the development of cervical cancer screening and examine whether to extend BreastCheck nationwide. It is a gross failure in a Third World country, never mind a country like Ireland. For the past 30 years, one could...

Obesity Related Diseases. (22 Nov 2005)

Liam Twomey: ...programme in this regard? It has given a similarly lukewarm reception to the breast cancer screening programme, which is being rolled out very slowly, and an even more lukewarm reception to the cervical cancer screening programme. Does the Government have any regard at all for the proposal to screen for diseases of this nature within the health care system?

Liquor Licensing Laws: Motion. (14 Jun 2005)

Liam Twomey: ...overrun by the ravioli and Chianti set or are they exercising a power over Ministers that we have not seen previously? In the past two months we had a Private Members' motion on BreastCheck and cervical cancer screening which looked at the number of women who die because their breast cancer or cervical cancer is not diagnosed in time. The same Government backbenchers voted against it not...

Cancer Screening Programme. (11 May 2005)

Liam Twomey: ...care and the role of health promotion in preventing ill heath, only two screening programmes have been implemented. One is BreastCheck which covers only half of the country. The other is the cervical screening programme which is still very much a pilot programme. Heart Watch has been successful because general practitioners supported it. One cannot join the Heart Watch screening programme...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion (Resumed). (13 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: The Fine Gael motion relates to screening for cervical and breast cancer through BreastCheck. The Government amendment only refers to services for breast cancer and cancer services generally which is not the purpose of our motion. The Tánaiste knows that one in four men and women will get cancer at some stage in their lives. In focusing on cancer which affects women and which can be screened...

Cancer Screening Programme: Motion. (12 Apr 2005)

Liam Twomey: This motion concerns two cancers that affect women of all age groups. Breast cancer is more common in women over 50 and women with a strong family history of the disease. Cervical cancer, or cancer of the cervix, which is part of the uterus or womb, has a number of risk factors. These factors include smoking, the incidence of which is increasing among young women, and the human papilloma...