Results 1-11 of 11 for cervical speaker:David Cullinane

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Mar 2023)

David Cullinane: 1302. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people with cervical cancer who started radiation therapy within the recommended timeframe to start radiation therapy, on a monthly basis, between 1 January 2019 to date, in tabular form. [12829/23]

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: .... It is also important that I put on the record that everybody wants to arrive at the same place. That position is genuinely held by everybody in this Chamber. We all know how emotive the CervicalCheck scandal was and we all want to make sure that duty of candour and open disclosure is what it is. We have arrived, however, at an unsatisfactory place, where we have an important...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Service 2022
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary) (Resumed) (6 Dec 2022)

David Cullinane: ...with the Department. I wish to ask about issues relating to the State Claims Agency. The Minister mentioned that a note on future claims would be sent to us in due course. He also mentioned CervicalCheck and patient safety. Earlier today, the Minister and I had a telephone conversation on the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill and amendments coming up tomorrow,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (22 Nov 2022)

David Cullinane: 624. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the development of the National Cervical Screening Laboratory; the timeframe for delivery of the project; the cost of the project to date; the unmet staffing requirements for the laboratory; the estimated final cost of the project; the estimated annual running cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57589/22]

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

David Cullinane: If I may respond to the Minister, one of the reasons he may not be able to find it anywhere internationally is that there may not have been the same level of incidents in cancer screening and cervical check screening in other countries as occurred in Ireland. Unfortunately, we have direct experience in this State of how women were failed. One of the reasons open disclosure and mandatory...

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (7 Jul 2021)

David Cullinane: ...and correspondence over recent weeks, the sole focus of the 221+ cancer support group is and has always been to reflect and represent the views of our members, whether that is in respect of the CervicalCheck tribunal or any other matters arising from the past failings of the national cervical cancer screening system. In respect of the tribunal specifically, your letter of 19 November set...

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)

David Cullinane: ...There are questions about the wisdom of it. However, we are not going to agree on that. We did put some questions to the HSE and the Department in respect of several court cases regarding the cervical cancer scandal, a number of which were settled recently. Are there 40 cases before the courts?

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)

David Cullinane: ...in his organisation. He accused Deputy MacSharry of trying, in the case of Emma Mhic Mhathúna, to create the impression that the false diagnosis had some consequence on her being diagnosed with cervical cancer.

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)

David Cullinane: ...about her death. It is a very personal tragedy for her. Ms Mhic Mhathúna was told in 2013 that her smear test was normal. Three years later, following a routine smear test, she was diagnosed with cervical cancer. The audit of the 2013 result showed that, in Ms Mhic Mhathúna's case, the first indications of cancer were already there. She was never told. It was the same for...

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)

David Cullinane: I understand that there are two types of cervical cancer. We have been through this.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 2 - Department of An Taoiseach (3 May 2018)

David Cullinane: ...all of these commissions and tribunals because the system itself is not able to give information to the public and to Members of the Oireachtas. We have a very current live crisis in relation to cervical screening. Nobody is able to give us a global picture of what is happening. As a result, there are fact-finding missions going on. Now there is more talk about whether we should have a...