Results 1-7 of 7 for cervical speaker:Gerard Craughwell

Seanad: Reports on Department of Health Policy in RTÉ Investigates Programme: Statements (29 Mar 2021)

Gerard Craughwell: ...going to court, the defendants have the right to defend themselves and in this case the State has the right to do that. However, looking at the countless things that have arisen in recent years from cervical cancer the full way through, it seems as though the first thing the State does when a case comes in is to pull down the hatches and everyone comes together to see how they can fight...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Jul 2020)

Gerard Craughwell: ..., and whichever Minister is responsible for the State Claims Agency should be brought before this House to explain why it is that it can do what it is doing. We have seen what happened regarding cervical cancer and various other areas. It is bloody well outrageous.

Seanad: Order of Business (6 Nov 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: .... If he had something to say about the Minister for Health why the hell did he not say it while he was in office? Why did he let the Minister approach the doors of the Dáil in the debate on the cervical cancer scandal and leave him with certain information at the last moment? Mr. O'Brien should have taken his package and walked away quietly and left the Government and the Minister...

Seanad: Order of Business (8 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: Last week, I spoke about the need for us to get behind or beneath the Ministers when disasters like the cervical screening disaster take place. I explained how the Carltona doctrine or principles allow public servants, including those who took decisions and hid information in this case, to remain faceless. I want to see Tony O'Brien go, but there are other people who need to go too. If he...

Seanad: Criminal Justice (Corruption Offences) Bill 2017: Second Stage (8 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...up masking the wrongdoers in public life. Unfortunately, Ministers take the fall for decisions that are made which they may not have been aware of at the time the decisions were made. We have seen that recently in the cervical cancer scare. We saw it in both the PTSB and Brigid McCole cases. All of these cases were taken and the State defence commenced without the Minister being...

Seanad: Corporate Manslaughter: Statements (8 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...this debate. I have huge sympathy for the Bill. For the past fortnight I have been speaking about political responsibility overshadowing those who took decisions that led to events such as the cervical cancer screening disaster, the hepatitis C scandal and various others in the past 25 to 30 years, with which we are familiar. There has been a doctrine since the 1940s, the Carltona...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 May 2018)

Gerard Craughwell: ...State to the point where she was forced into a settlement on the day before she died, on the basis that if she did not accept it, it would bring her all the way to the Supreme Court. In respect of the cervical screening failures, in recent days we have learned that senior officials were aware of CervicalCheck concerns but the State put women through an aggressive and hostile litigation...