Results 21-40 of 54 for cervical speaker:Alan Kelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Cervical Screening Programme Inquiry (2 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the date a person (details supplied) found out that a laboratory in Manchester was not accredited to perform cervical cancer screening; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27724/19]

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Second Stage (26 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...judgment would not have consequences. It is a two paragraph letter, the second of which states that the advice the Department had received indicated the tribunal is configured to deal with such CervicalCheck cases as are sent to it by claimants and defendants on the basis of the applicable law on personal injury claims. The applicable law is the body of precedent that now includes the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (18 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 475. To ask the Minister for Health if women who are eligible for the review of cervical cancer slides by a body (details supplied) are not being included in the review due to the fact their slides cannot be found; if so, the number of women this has happened to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25488/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Jun 2019)

Alan Kelly: 450. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to preliminary findings from the review of cervical cancer slides by an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23384/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (13 Mar 2019)

Alan Kelly: 34. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the second Scally report into the cervical cancer scandal is delayed; and when it will be published. [11795/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Cancer Strategy: Discussion (13 Mar 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...is on National Cancer Registry Ireland, something I have pursued for well over a year. I was alarmed to hear what had happened regarding the statistical analysis, throughput and pathways regarding cervical cancer. Through engagement with the Minister, Deputy Harris, I found out about this almost by accident. This is not a reflection on National Cancer Registry Ireland at all. Can we be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (12 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 435. To ask the Minister for Health if a company (details supplied), under its contract to provide cervical screening services to the HSE, outsources some of its work outside of the contract with the HSE to labs in the United States of America; if so, when he and a person were notified of same; the actions that have been taken as a result; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6631/19]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Screening Programmes (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: As stated, there are comprehensive delays in screening women for cervical cancer. The delays have maximised at 24 weeks, if not longer. While I accept the Minister's bona fides in respect of why he did this, I ask him to provide a guarantee for the House that the delay will not have a significant impact on any woman's health prognosis.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (17 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...this year. It has already been saidit will probably be completed six months from now. There is a secrecy surrounding the relationship with the laboratories. Following the money trail to determine the cost of cervical screening and the work done by the laboratories is shrouded in secrecy and this is another example. I fail to see why the Department cannot give us the figures. I,...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (15 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...of the Sláintecare report, the committee which Deputy O'Reilly and I sat on for 11 months with Deputy Shortall as the Chair, which recommended this. As somebody who is into the detail of the cervical cancer debacle, it was quite obvious as a result of what many of us saw transpire at that time in the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Health, both which I am a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: This is a hugely important issue. As we all know, the CervicalCheck scandal that broke last year did huge damage to our confidence in the health system in this country. Specifically, I want answers to the following matters. At the time of the response by the Government to this issue, we found out that the Minister had established a review of all the slides of women who had cervical cancer...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Cancer Screening Programmes (15 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...-week period be reduced to what is an appropriate time limit? A matter that is really bugging me is that in October I raised the issue of Pembro being made available to all women at stage four cervical cancer whose clinicians advocated for it. The Taoiseach, the Minister for Health and Professor Michael Barry of the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics, NCPE, said that women would...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Dec 2018)

Alan Kelly: .... The Minister has the power to bypass that process, as was done for Orkambi. It can be done for any other drug, as evidenced by the making available of pembrolizumab to 221 women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal. An article by Professor Michael Barry in last weekend’s The Sunday Business Postaddressed political interference in this area. The majority of political...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Reimbursement (5 Dec 2018)

Alan Kelly: 105. To ask the Minister for Health when Pembrolizumab will be made available free of charge to all cervical cancer patients whose clinicians are of the view they require it [50824/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Incidence (5 Dec 2018)

Alan Kelly: 101. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women who have been diagnosed with stage four cervical cancer here in each of the years 2015 to 2017 and to date in 2018. [50782/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...go two years? Would this be in any way normal? How can it be that Áine Morgan in Loughrea - this is all in the public domain, by the way - is fundraising to go on pembrolizumab? Ms Morgan has cervical cancer but is not one of the 221 women, yet Vicky Phelan, to whom I have spoken in depth about this and who is one of the 221 women, is getting the drug for free from the State. One...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...to allow it to be used on a trial basis. The Government and the company could work together or some other method could be used to that end. It is not acceptable that the 221 women affected by the CervicalCheck scandal have access to this drug, but others do not. It is morally right that the State is paying for the 221 women in question to access this drug, as a result of a Cabinet...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses and thank the Minister of State for standing in for the Minister, Deputy Harris. I have some questions for Mr. Connaghan and others relating to the CervicalCheck issue which could be answered by Mr. McCallion or Mr. Connaghan. This will be a quick-fire round because we only have a certain amount of time for questions. Is Mr. Connaghan considering any structural...

Public Accounts Committee: Matters related to Medical Negligence, Open Disclosure, Cervical Cancer and Thalidomide Litigation (8 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes. My last question is also for the HSE. What is the intended date for the implementation of HPV testing as part of cervical check? This is a very important question and lots of people watching these proceedings want to know the answer. This is absolutely critical. We need a date. A few months ago we were told it would happen within six months. When will HPV testing begin? What is...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Oct 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have two questions. First, can I be the main speaker when we are discussing the cervical cancer issue on Thursday, 8 November?