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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medical Conditions (17 Dec 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...from endometriosis. Many go to Britain, or even Romania, for treatment. Let us be absolutely clear that we are dealing with a gender bias in medicine. The type of medical misogyny we saw with cervical cancer is repeated with endometriosis. We need to establish a centre of excellence to diagnose women at very early stage and not dismiss them as just having period pain. Then they...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (13 Nov 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: He had no problem sending cervical smear testing abroad which his former party pioneered. On one final point about the Nigerian community, a Cheann Comhairle.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (26 Feb 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...decades. Please do not let the case of Philomena Canning become another shameful episode, involving very ill women, in the history of this Government and the establishment. We saw in respect of cervical cancer screening how people had to go to court. The Taoiseach said this would not happen. Will he intervene to ensure a speedy settlement and to allow Philomena to live out her days...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Ruth Coppinger: ...laboratory whether it recruited extra testers? It is striking that we even have to ask that question and that the Minister did not know. This boils down to the outsourcing and privatisation of cervical cancer testing. That is at the root of the problem, because we cannot question these laboratories. 6 o’clock At least, for all its faults, we can get answers from the public...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Dec 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...doctors should be allowed to prescribe whatever they feel is effective, and has proven to be effective, for other patients without waiting two years for a licence to be made available for its use for cervical cancer? Is it not time this country looked at bringing drug companies under public control so that they do not profiteer at people's expense?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...Tánaiste think it is now time to pass legislation banning outsourcing in healthcare, given what we can read in today'sIrish Independent? There is a backlog of 80,000 tests from women who underwent cervical screening in recent months. CervicalCheck has issued a warning on its website about a wait of more than five months in a small number of cases. This follows revelations that an...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...so than the Government realised. Trusting the person to make this decision was the overriding point that came back at the doors. Since this has been proposed, we have had the whole situation with cervical cancer and a recognition there has been a paternalistic model of not trusting women, not giving them full information and not treating them as agents with brains and thoughts to make...

Select Committee on Health: Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Committee Stage (6 Nov 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...is subjective. It is good that we are not putting in conditions. The patient, as we would say if it was in another setting, should also have a say. We have seen this paternalistic attitude with cervical cancer. If we are serious about that issue, then we should reflect it in the legislation. An example is a woman with serious health problems. We have all read about, and could cite,...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...on location. CPL was asked about its standards in 2011, but Dr. Scally states that there is no record of what happened when errors were identified in regard to the under-reporting of low-level cervical cancers, which is very dangerous because those cancers might develop further. Consistent error by a pathologist responsible for training others was identified but nothing was done. No...

Questions on Promised Legislation (23 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...this morning and as reported on the front of The Times, Ireland edition the president of the Academy of Clinical Science and Laboratory Medicine has said that cost was the main reason the testing of cervical smears was outsourced to American labs. It gives an insight into how the Government was not only trying to provide services on the cheap, but also how the services here had been run...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Communications (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 160. To ask the Minister for Health if he or one of his predecessors were informed of the media strategy for reporting on the number of false negative cervical checks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21701/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Data (16 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: 163. To ask the Minister for Health the level of detection rates for cervical checks in the different laboratories performing same in each of the years 2008 to 2017 inclusive. [21704/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ..., said that power already knows the truth and is busy concealing it. Maybe it is best not to keep that plaque on the wall. I note that while Mr. O'Brien was here, he said that not every case of cervical cancer was referred back to CervicalCheck for audit. To quote, he said "I think they always knew that". However, the Minister was only hit with that news 20 minutes before he got up to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (9 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...year are being presented as the common, everyday abortion. I urge the Department to intervene because these notions that are going around are very dangerous. Lastly, on the broader issue of cervical cancer and also Portiuncula Hospital, one would not have to be too bright to notice that there is a pattern in this State of women and women's health not being taken very seriously. We...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: Since this scandal broke, the dogs in the street have been asking how it is good medical practice to outsource cervical screening to a privatised lab 3,000 miles away in a different time zone. Have we not arrived at the truth with these figures, given it is paying its technicians a fraction of what professionals are paid here? A private, for-profit company like Quest would be known to cut...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ..., but the treatment means she cannot have children, which is a huge blow to her, a woman in her 30s, and her husband. We cannot adjudicate here as to whether it was excusable not to detect her cervical cancer. However, why is there an aura of such confidence in smear tests when they are, in fact, so fallible? Why were women with symptoms like Anna's dismissed by their own GPs when the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: The HSE opening statement reads, "The current primary screening test used by CervicalCheck is a cytology test known to have low sensitivity, that is, it produces a not insignificant number of false negative results." Why would we use a system with low sensitivity in a country that has the highest cervical cancer rate of all EU member states? I wish to ask about the claim Mr. O'Brien has...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: I was referring to the fact that over the ten years we never reached the 1.8% average rate that other countries did yet we have a higher instance of cervical cancer. If we are getting lower detection rates back but getting a higher number of actual diagnoses, did Dr. Holohan not flag a problem over the ten years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cervical Screening Programme: Department of Health, HSE, CervicalCheck and the National Cancer Control Programme (2 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: This is a really important point of order. Mr. O'Brien has said that the cervical screening is only 70% accurate, that is really serious. When I checked the website it says there is a small risk.

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (1 May 2018)

Ruth Coppinger: ...to patients. I want to speak about an issue which some of the parties in this Dáil do not seem to be interested in, namely, privatisation, which has led to this situation. The outsourcing of cervical smear tests in 2008 was part of the privatisation of health services. A critically important part of health services for women was starved of funding and resources. A HSE recruitment...