Results 1-20 of 44 for cervical speaker:Bríd Smith

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Bríd Smith: ...few: public-private partnerships on toll roads; school buildings that are faulty and on which we pay more and more to have them sorted out; the national convention centre; the national children's hospital; and the cervical check programme. Even with the history of a great number of observers of this plan having very serious concerns about it from the outset, it has developed in an even...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (27 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: 2993. To ask the Minister for Health the companies currently operating the HPV cervical screening programme; the percentage of work per laboratory and company; the length of time the current contracts operate for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39808/21]

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Bríd Smith: ...intends to address the issue, given that when he was in opposition, he seemed to agree with and share these concerns when we discussed the original Act. I will make some general comments on the CervicalCheck scandal. Women affected by this scandal, and some of us who have raised it here, have had to listen continually to an avalanche of commentators and experts explaining to us that...

Gnó Comhaltaí Príobháideacha - Private Members' Business - Cancer Screening: Motion [Private Members] (8 Sep 2020)

Bríd Smith: ...are worried sick that, in the long run, this may endanger their lives because, as has been said over and over during this debate, cancer can be life threatening and life taking. The same is true of CervicalCheck, bowel screening, etc. The thrust of the motion is to insist that we begin to find ways to return to full, normal and proper screening services. The denial of screening services...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 May 2020)

Bríd Smith: 526. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories and companies that will conduct the new HPV testing for cervical cancer screening; if more than one company is involved; the expected percentage of the overall testing to be done by each laboratory concerned; the location of the laboratories and institutions concerned; his plans to repatriate the service fully here; and the criteria and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Engagement with Patient Representatives on CervicalCheck and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists Review Process (17 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...back in anger and move forward with a proper process but if we do not look back, history will be repeated. Outsourcing to private and for-profit services, whether it is for fertility issues or CervicalCheck, will bring such issues. Fertility treatment probably will not kill a person but not having the correct analysis of a cervical smear test may do so. What do we say to women who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: I have a question for the Minister. I noted his statement on the RCOG report. I have ideological issues with the way CervicalCheck has been outsourced. I acknowledge that but I also acknowledge that the Minister needs and wants, and I accept that women must have, confidence in CervicalCheck, that it has to be used, that it is a good thing and that it saves lives. I want to get that out of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (10 Dec 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...Health if the exact same standards of measuring of that which constitutes a discordant slide upon review as opposed to a concordant slide are employed by the ongoing slide review involving cases of cervical cancer in the UK referenced by a college (details supplied) and its own methodology used in a recent review. [51753/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (8 Oct 2019)

Bríd Smith: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the laboratories from which the 221 cases of misdiagnosed smears under Cervical Check came, by laboratory and by year in tabular form. [40777/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: ..., 1191 and 1197 of 6 September 2019, if a direct response will issue on the specific question regarding a patient having to fund an independent review of her smears if she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer. [38526/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (24 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 1190, 1191 and 1197 of 6 September 2019, if a response will issue on whether the financial burden on patients with cervical cancer will be removed; and if the HSE will fund an independent review of smears if requested. [38527/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (6 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1190. To ask the Minister for Health if persons who are newly diagnosed with cervical cancer must pay for their own independent reviews, especially in circumstances in which all previous smears were normal before the cancer diagnosis. [36171/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (6 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1191. To ask the Minister for Health the reason patients who were diagnosed or will be diagnosed in the coming months as having cervical cancer will not be able to avail of the HSE cancer audit to review their smears in order to avoid a financial burden on cancer patients who wish to have their smears reviewed. [36172/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (6 Sep 2019)

Bríd Smith: 1197. To ask the Minister for Health if women diagnosed with cervical cancer that were not included in the previous review process can request a review of their screening history; if so, if the HSE will fund and support such a review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36214/19]

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: .... What is required, however, is the signing of a waiver by the woman. That is what we want to remove. Regardless of the five-year period mentioned by Deputy Kelly, if there is a recurrence of cervical cancer in ten or 15 years' time, the waiver might mean that the woman would have no redress or would not have the capacity to investigate or take a case to court. The Minister said in...

Select Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Committee Stage (3 Jul 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...and false positives because I have gone to the trouble to understand it. That is not the point I am getting at. I am getting at the irresponsibility of this State to continue outsourcing Cervical Check samples to laboratories in America that were not up to scratch.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...the internal audit was shut down and that, since then, between 250 and 300 women who were excluded from the group of 221 women who were affected initially - the 221 group - have been diagnosed with cervical cancer? In other words, these women's cases have not been audited and the women have not been given access to the care package which members of the 221 group received, yet it is likely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: CervicalCheck Screening Programme Update: Discussion (Resumed) (3 Apr 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...representatives, public health professionals and representatives of medical bodies which has met four times to date. This was a whole year ago. Between 250 and 300 women have been diagnosed with cervical cancer since then. If I was one of them, I would feel let down by the State, the system, the HSE and everybody concerned on the basis that no audit of my screening history is available...

National Cervical Screening Programme: Statements (6 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: ...and new twists it is easy to forget what lies at the heart of the scandal. I am sick of hearing the same mantra in every response from the Minister, the HSE and the self-professed experts on CervicalCheck, whether in the media or otherwise, that it is complex, that we do not understand the intricacies of testing, that it is not a diagnostic test, that every screening process has errors...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Bríd Smith: 130. To ask the Minister for Health the reason his Department and HSE officials are refusing to release information that would detail the number of false negative tests in the cervical screening programme by each laboratory; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5368/19]