Results 1-4 of 4 for cervical speaker:Dara Calleary

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Jan 2019)

Dara Calleary: Last April and May, the CervicalCheck controversy shook our nation's faith in our health service right to core. The heartbreaking stories of the families, and their courage and dignity in the face of what was facing them was seared on all our minds at the time. The Government and the Minister for Health made many promises in the immediate days and weeks after the controversy broke. It...

Leaders' Questions (10 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: ...into consideration how the public who elect us and whom we serve believe an issue should be dealt with. Over the past two weeks, there have been heated exchanges on the chaotic, irresponsible way CervicalCheck has handled its audit of cervical smears. This was brought to public light by Vicky Phelan who was forced to take her case and tell her story to the High Court. The bravery she...

Leaders' Questions (3 May 2018)

Dara Calleary: ...domain, eight days since her amazing courage and her determination to speak the truth alerted the country and thousands of women in Ireland to the dereliction of duty and responsibility which CervicalCheck and the HSE unleashed on her and her family and, possibly, thousands of others. In that eight days, there has been an enormous sense of worry, concern and anger throughout the country....

Leaders' Questions (26 Apr 2018)

Dara Calleary: Everybody who yesterday evening listened to and watched Ms Vicky Phelan telling the story of how her cervical smear test was processed and then misdiagnosed, and then nobody actually had the courage to tell her about that for up to three years, would have been struck by the amazing courage and bravery of Vicky and her family. Vicky is a young woman, only 43, a wife and a mother of two...