Results 21-35 of 35 for cervical speaker:Micheál Martin

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (23 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: At the very end of my slot on Leaders' Questions, the Taoiseach confirmed that repeat cervical tests would happen and that the Minister for Health informed him about this some weeks ago. Can the Taoiseach indicate how many women will have to have tests repeated? Could he indicate when the women concerned will be contacted by the Department and CervicalCheck? One should bear in mind that...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: The scandal surrounding the CervicalCheck programme and the withholding of information from women in relation to their false-negative test results last year has caused much trauma, anxiety and hurt. Unfortunately, women have died of cervical cancer. Over the weekend, I was sad to hear of the passing of Orla Church, a campaigner and cervical cancer victim. The CervicalCheck programme has...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: I recently asked the Minister for Health when he had received advice from his officials on the impact of announcing a recheck of cervical smear tests, if he had held meetings with them at that time, the discussion that took place and if he would make a statement on the matter. His written reply did not answer any of the specific questions I tabled. I have complained under Standing Order 44...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 808. To ask the Minister for Health when he received the advice from his officials on the impact of announcing a recheck on cervical smear tests; if he held meetings with his officials at that time, the discussion on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1722/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jan 2019)

Micheál Martin: 809. To ask the Minister for Health the rationale of announcing the repeat cervical smears for women following receipt of advice stating this would have a seriously negative impact on the service; the reason he did not make it known that he had received this advice; if he sought extra funding to resolve the extra waiting times for the women; if extra funding was allocated to address the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Dec 2018)

Micheál Martin: 328. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the assessment of the capacity of laboratories here to perform cervical screening; when this assessment will be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51641/18]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (22 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...in particular ensuring disclosure to patients generally in our health service and, in this context, to women who were the victims of non-disclosure of false negatives and wrong results in terms of cervical cancer. What I find quite striking is the very significant degree of correspondence between doctors, people in CervicalCheck and chief executive officers, CEOs, such as the CEO of the...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: When the scandal in regard to the Vicky Phelan case and the women involved in the cervical cancer screening programme not being informed of the audit outcomes first emerged in this House, I used the phrase, "Everybody knew, but nobody knew". In terms of the documentation produced yesterday by the Department, these words ring very true because everybody within the national screening...

Leaders' Questions (16 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...it inexplicable that people did not front up at that early stage and provide the documentation. Second, on open disclosure, what is evident in this documentation is an attempt to exempt the cervical screening programme from the strict rigours of open disclosure. The templates for the letters to the women concerned provide consultants with a way out in terms of the use of the word...

Leaders' Questions (15 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...to express sympathy and to talk about the issue later. Last Thursday, at a meeting of the Committee of Public Accounts, three memorandums, dating from March and July 2016, revealed that the CervicalCheck management team, the leadership of the HSE, the acute hospitals division of the Department of Health and the Chief Medical Officer had all shared and discussed memorandums related to...

Leaders' Questions (8 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...anger at how Vicky Phelan was treated, the failure to tell women the truth about their misdiagnoses, forcing a sick woman through the courts and questions regarding the quality of our national cervical cancer screening programme. It is fair and objective to say that the response of the HSE directorate, the Department and the Minister in the early days compounded the crisis. Nobody...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: ...HSE, with all the inevitable potential conflict of interests that arise from such membership of that board, the personnel involved and so forth? I put it to the Taoiseach that confidence in the cervical cancer screening programme has been undermined by the drip, drip feed of information and shocking new revelations. I do not think anyone on this side of the House could accuse the...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)

Micheál Martin: Last night, the Minister for Health revealed that there were more than 1,500 additional cervical cases which had not been audited. This shocking and out-of-the-blue revelation confirms that the response to this crisis to date from the Minister and the Department of Health has been neither competent nor comprehensive. It is now two weeks since the Minister was told about the issue and nearly...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (10 Feb 2004)

Micheál Martin: Phase 1 of the national cervical screening programme has been up and running in the Mid-Western Health Board since October 2000. Under the programme, cervical screening is being offered at five year intervals to approximately 74,000 women in the 25 to 60 age group free of charge. The national health strategy includes a commitment to extend the programme to the rest of the country. The Health...

Written Answers — Health Board Services: Health Board Services (10 Feb 2004)

Micheál Martin: The current waiting time in the North Western Health Board region in respect of cervical smears is four weeks for priority smears and 16 weeks for routine smears. The North Western Health Board will continue to make efforts to reduce the waiting times further.