Results 21-40 of 40 for cervical speaker:Catherine Connolly

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Catherine Connolly: Cervical cancer is the fourth most common cancer in women worldwide. This was mentioned in Dr. Gabriel Scally's report, which was published in September 2018. It goes on to say, "In Ireland in 2015 (the most recent year for which data is published), there were 241 cases of cervical cancer." It then goes on to talk about the importance of screening and of an effective screening service. We...

Death of Vicky Phelan: Expressions of Sympathy (15 Nov 2022)

Catherine Connolly: ...ná gealltanais bhréaga. Is é an rud a bhí ag teastáil uaithi ná gníomh de réir ár mbriathar. Today we remember Vicky Phelan, who has passed away, and all the other women who have lost their lives as a result of the failures and the mistakes made in the cervical screening services. I am very conscious of the words of Vicky Phelan and what...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (25 Jan 2023)

Catherine Connolly: ...Deputy Donnchadh Ó Laoghaire - To discuss an update on and actions arising from consultations with survivors of institutional abuse. Deputy Holly Cairns - To discuss measures to increase the uptake of cervical screening. Deputy Mattie McGrath - To discuss the closure of the Corman Miloko plant in Carrick-on-Suir and the need to bring alternative employment to Carrick-on-Suir. Deputy...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...to monitor independently the implementation of the recommendations in respect of the Department of Justice and Equality and he was not taken up on it. According to Dr. Scally, the cost of the cervical screening test is €23.9 million. That is all. There is an extra sum in respect of the hospitals. Will the Minister tell me now what is the cost so far of the consequences of the...

Independent Clinical Review of Maternity Services at Portiuncula University Hospital: Statements (Resumed) (13 Mar 2019)

Catherine Connolly: It is unfortunate that this has been sandwiched between the cervical smear scandal and Brexit. It is unfortunate for those people who have suffered dreadfully. I want to start by extending my sympathy to the families. Six babies died one way or another and a lot of other children suffered. On page 22 of the report, Professor Walker writes: "It is obvious to the [clinical review team] that...

Prime Time Investigates Programme on Department of Health: Statements (1 Apr 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Act? Did that happen? About how many files are we talking? What explorations has the Department done to find out? How many other areas does it affect? Does it, for example, affect the women with cervical cancer who came forward and took cases? How many other sectors has it affected? Let us have, at the very least, a full and frank discussion in the Dáil with senior Cabinet...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...forum for ten years. I was there when the decision was made to privatise the service. I come from a city that had a first-class laboratory, which was used to roll out the first phase of the cervical smear tests because the laboratory was so good and it had such capacity. The problem arose for two reasons. First, the capacity of the public system was deliberately run down and the...

Scoping Inquiry into the Cervical Check Screening Programme: Statements (19 Sep 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...opinion on that. That was one mistake. He was asked to scope the issues and the questions that arise from this scandal. I am not a Member of this Dáil to reassure women that they should have cervical smear tests or any other test. That is not my job. My job is to ensure that we have an open and accountable system which instills confidence in women and allows them to make up...

Supplementary Report of the Scoping Inquiry into the CervicalCheck Screening Programme: Statements (19 Jun 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...national cancer screening service had no means of assessing the accreditation, quality standards, governance or other critical features regarding the suitability of these laboratories to undertake cervical check work. Dr. Scally says:The most benign interpretation [I certainly would not agree with him. I would give a different interpretation] of these events is that neither party...

Ábhair Shaincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Matters (4 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...Carol Nolan - to discuss a derogation under Article 105(4) of Regulation (EU) 2019/6 on the prescription of certain veterinary medicinal products; (20) Deputy Thomas Gould - to discuss the continued closure of SouthDoc Blackpool; (21) Deputy Sorca Clarke - to discuss the future of the cervical cancer programme; (22) Deputy Holly Cairns - to discuss the destruction of survivor testimonies...

Leaders' Questions (2 May 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...until April 2016 to be referred. There was no explanation of the terms of reference and no commitment to learn anything from the case, except empty reassurances such as the ones the Taoiseach has given to the people on cervical smear tests. He is not in a position to give reassurance, but he is in a position to give us the facts. Will he explain to the House why it took until April 2016...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements (27 May 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...need urgent surgery but she cannot do it. There are 300 awaiting consultations. The more I reflect on the Covid-19 crisis, the more it seems to disproportionately affect women and children. There is no cervical screening, no BreastCheck, no elective surgery carried out and emergency surgery is very limited. This is while we have the two hospitals practically empty. It is certainly 70%...

Coronavirus: Statements (5 Mar 2020)

Catherine Connolly: ...our respiratory etiquette, which, in itself, is a message. We then look at the Minister's message, which comes from the establishment, as it were. The Minister has to learn the lesson from the cervical smear scandal that we need to give out as much information as possible, stop being patriarchal and realise that information is power. Information empowers people, so we must give out...

Strike Action by the Medical Laboratory Scientists Association: Motion [Private Members] (25 May 2022)

Catherine Connolly: .... While the medical scientists and all of their colleagues appealed for this not to be done, each Government, following the lead of the Progressive Democrats, said "No" and that privatisation was the way forward. We then had the scandal of the cervical smear tests. We have learned nothing. The Minister should be telling us why the report has not been implemented, what needs to be done...

Cork University Maternity Hospital: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...they pointed out what had happened. They were asked whether it was a serious incident. The answer was "No", but that there was a risk of adverse publicity. Again, there are more echoes of the cervical cancer debacle. It is the exact same thing: concern about adverse publicity. It is not about the patients, their families or the perinatal organs. Will the Minister tell me what the...

Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Feb 2021)

Catherine Connolly: ...matter. An awful lot of very respected people have been completely ignored in this regard. These include Dr. Gabriel Scally, who has almost been sanctified in his own lifetime for his work on the cervical smear debacle, which is very unusual. His views have been utterly ignored. He has been a consistent voice in saying that this must be treated on an all-island basis with regard to the...

Health Service Executive (Governance) Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Jan 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...thing but that it was not good. However, I do not hear that being said. The third reason is the Scally report, from which I will quote because it is important. I contributed to the debate on it. It concerned cervical cancer screening, what had happened, the patronising attitude and the failure to give information. That is what it was about: the failure to give information to women to...

Acknowledgement and Apology to Women and Families affected by CervicalCheck Debacle: Statements (22 Oct 2019)

Catherine Connolly: ...seriously now but states:In 1997 the then Health Minister established The Women’s Health Council (WHC) with a remit to advise the Minister ... It had a comprehensive list of functions ... That was then. Over the period CervicalCheck was in operation, I sat on a health forum in Galway. We knew then that the wrong decisions were being made by the then Minister for Health and...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Oct 2018)

Catherine Connolly: ...no woman takes a decision to terminate a pregnancy easily. It is also vital to recognise that the Bill is to provide a health service. We need to move away from the patronising and patriarchal language, and we need to trust women. If we have learned anything from the cervical smear scandal and all the other scandals, it is to trust women and give the maximum information to empower them,...

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

Catherine Connolly: ...about this Bill notwithstanding the purpose behind it and the fact the vast majority of affected women seem to support it, which I will certainly take on board. The background is the roll out of CervicalCheck in 2008 after a pilot project. This is the same year during which we decided to privatise it and run down our laboratories. We gave the first contract to Quest and so we continued....