Results 1-4 of 4 for flu speaker:Mary White

Seanad: Order of Business (17 Jun 2009)

Mary White: ...die from suicide each year and I want to know why the energy of the Department of Health and Children, the HSE and the Minister is not being galvanised. If 500 people a year were dying from swine flu, a national emergency would be declared, but this is being ignored. Much of the reason for this is that the stigma of mental illness and suicide is still very evident. I tabled a motion at...

Seanad: Cancer Services: Motion. (22 Mar 2006)

Mary White: ...care whereas others could avail of cancer screening, a cervical test or a mammogram today and receive the results tomorrow. We need to get our act together. One person died in Turkey from avian flu but there are 65 deaths per year in Ireland from cervical cancer alone. In 2001, 645 women died from breast cancer. We need an inclusive national screening programme, regardless of whether women...

Seanad: Oncology Services: Statements. (8 Dec 2005)

Mary White: ...means. An example of this practice would be when a person undergoes a test for cervical or breast cancer, having been asked to do so while visiting a general practitioner with a sore throat or flu. I did not know what opportunistic screening entailed until I started studying this issue about six months ago but it is not the correct approach to cancer screening. Several weeks ago I visited...

Seanad: Garda Síochána Bill 2004: Second Stage (Resumed). (11 Mar 2004)

Mary White: ...heavy-handedness and lack of control in the Garda, the "Prime Time" special on the lack of responsiveness and accountability of the Garda Síochána Complaints Board, and the so-called "blue flu", which was appalling and out of line. It was a serious decision on the part of the gardaí to take that action and pretend they were sick. I made a personal complaint to the Garda Complaints Board...