Results 81-100 of 104 for cervical speaker:James Reilly

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (8 Jul 2008)

James Reilly: Question 265: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the position regarding the roll out of the cervical cancer vaccine; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26783/08]

Cancer Screening Programme: Statements (29 May 2008)

James Reilly: ...information and to find out how the disparity arose. I thank the Government for overruling the Minister for Health, who was not willing to concede this debate when I called for it two weeks ago. Cervical cancer kills more than 70 women a year in this country and afflicts thousands of others. By initiating a cervical screening programme in conjunction with a cervical cancer vaccine we...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 May 2008)

James Reilly: ...Health and Children if she will confirm that she or the Health Service Executive has recently entered into five year leasing agreements for upgrading and supply of two imager machines for reading cervical smear tests for St. James's-Coombe Hospitals and Rotunda-Beaumont at a cost of €1 million per machine totalling €2 million; the use these machines will be put to over the next five...

Written Answers — Cancer Screening Programme: Cancer Screening Programme (27 May 2008)

James Reilly: Question 212: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if she will report on the outsourcing of cervical smears in Cork where 39,000 smears were processed by a company (details supplied); the number of smears that were borderline; the number that were positive; the number that were negative; the number that were high grade; the number that were repeats; the number of high grades missed by...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: ...That is not reassuring. There is the continuing preoccupation with the privatisation of our health service, the co-location of hospitals and, in particular, the recent bizarre decision to outsource cervical smears to an American company which has been found to be recalcitrant in its behaviour. In 1998, 2001 and 2004, the aforementioned company was fined a total of $40 million for...

Cancer Services: Motion (20 May 2008)

James Reilly: Is something wrong with the HSE given that it cannot find a partner abroad which does not have a record of fraud? Quest, the cervical cancer screening company, has a margin of error of 15%, whereas our laboratories have a margin of 5%. A recent comparative study of 14,500 slides conducted by St. Luke's hospital shows that, even accounting for urgent cases, Quest's laboratory has an error...

Order of Business (15 May 2008)

James Reilly: A report appears today in the Irish Independent about Quest Diagnostics, the company that is to be awarded the cytology contract for between 300,000 and 500,000 smears as part of our cervical screening programme.

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Apr 2008)

James Reilly: Question 11: To ask the Minister for Health and Children if, in view of the reported plans to outsource the reading of all 300,000 cervical smears outside this State to another continent, causing the closure of all cervical smear laboratories here and the consequent loss of more than 100 highly skilled specialised jobs involved in the teaching and reading of cervical smears at a time of...

Cancer Screening Programme. (29 Apr 2008)

James Reilly: The Minister's reply is incredible. A cervical cancer screening programme was piloted in the mid-west in 1999. Either the Department of Health and Children or the Health Service Executive engineered the tender for this contract. Why was action not taken in recent years to encourage, assist and resource the laboratories in this State to be in a position to tender for the contract? Some...

Requests to move Adjournment of Dáil under Standing Order 32 (8 Apr 2008)

James Reilly: I seek the adjournment of the Dáil under Standing Order 32 to debate the following urgent matter, namely the serious situation regarding cervical screening in Ireland and the reported plans of the Minister for Health and Children to outsource the reading of all 300,000 cervical smears outside this State to another continent, causing the closure of all Irish cervical smear laboratories and...

Special Educational Needs: Motion (12 Feb 2008)

James Reilly: ...to the normal school year is counterproductive. We have reached a situation where we are to have 12 pilot ABA schools. Are we to wait another ten years for them in the way we have to wait for cervical screening? Yvonne Ó Cuanacháin recently asked: "How do you fight the whole resources of the State when they are brought down to bear on you...when they decide to fight such a terrible and...

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: Question 4: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the date cervical screening will become available nationally; the reason this was not made available by the end of 2007; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2926/08]

Cancer Screening Programme. (31 Jan 2008)

James Reilly: ..., tell the story as it is, give us a deadline that she can meet and make a commitment that she can keep. It is all broken promises and excuses. Furthermore, I want to know about the other part of cervical screening, namely, the vaccination. When will the national immunisation advisory board make its recommendation? I believe it is in a position to do it. I cannot understand why it has...

Competition (Amendment) Bill 2007: Second Stage (18 Dec 2007)

James Reilly: ...and the dentists are walking away from what they see as a loss leader. The same will happen with pharmacists. How will future arrangements be put in place with general practitioners to roll out cervical screening or with chiropodists if the diabetes programme is rolled out nationally or with physiotherapists and so on? These are all areas of activity where because of a quirk in the law...

Confidence in Minister for Health and Children: Motion (27 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: ...of — she should hang her head in shame. This Minister cannot provide dignified care for our elderly loved ones in Irish hospitals after ten years of unprecedented wealth. The Minister promised cervical screening would roll out on 1 January and I pointed out six weeks ago that this was most unlikely to happen. There is only one accredited laboratory to read smears and some tests are...

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: ...to the vaccine and Dr. Connolly's concerns regarding our ability to deliver a vaccination programme should the Minister decide to proceed with it. What will be the costings for the roll-out of cervical screening programmes? I spoke to the Minister six weeks ago about this matter in the House when I stated it was unlikely that she could succeed because there were no laboratories in place....

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: Is there a budget in place in respect of the roll-out of a cervical screening programme? Is the Minister in a position to guarantee the House that it will be rolled out by March next year? In light of the cutbacks taking place, is there any real credibility to her claim that she will roll it out? A large advertisement appeared in the Sunday Independent last weekend in which company...

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: Roll out a cervical screening programme first?

Vaccination Programme. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: What about cervical screening?

National Cancer Strategy. (21 Nov 2007)

James Reilly: ...to the House that she would discuss the budget with the Minister for Finance. I hope she will find the additional funds necessary to make this plan successful so that it does not become, like cervical screening, a mere aspiration.