Results 1-5 of 5 for cervical speaker:Joan Burton
- Markets in Financial Instruments Bill 2018: Second Stage (3 May 2018)
Joan Burton: This is the first time since the news about the cervical testing services broke that we have met a Minister from the Department of Finance. The Department of Finance oversees the public service and the public service code of conduct. In that respect, will the Minister of State indicate whether any element of the public service code of conduct applies to the head of the HSE, and whether the...
- HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)
Joan Burton: ...the debate, it may not have really got through just how difficult this cancer can be and how devastating it is for a family to lose usually a mother as a result of it. I did not know much about cervical cancer until my cousin lost her life to it. My aunt Kay, Marie's mother, knew even less and, to be honest, we were all bewildered, particularly her children and her husband. Some 20...
- Programme for Government. (26 May 2009)
Joan Burton: ...the Green Party signed up to many positive measures in the programme for Government, it then agreed, for instance, to the withdrawal of medical cards from the over-70s and to the withdrawal of the cervical screening vaccination programme.
- Cancer Vaccine: Statements (6 Nov 2008)
Joan Burton: ...at the weekend the Progressive Democrats are likely to be stood down and her mandate in this Government will be at an end. Some 70 women a year die, usually in great pain, from different types of cervical cancer. Many of us know friends or family who have died from this disease. The young girls relevant to this scheme would get the disease years to come; I hope it will be long after our...
- Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (29 Apr 2008)
Joan Burton: Question 46: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will ensure that the process of accreditation of cytology laboratories which carry out tests for cervical cancer is completed as soon as possible in order that the national cervical screening programme can have testing done here rather than abroad; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16234/08]