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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...health products, for example, DePuy hip replacement products and Poly Implant Prothèse, PIP, replacement breast enhancement products. While the jury may be out, the parents have concerns about the HPV vaccine. Do vaccines as health products come under the scrutiny of the Health Products Regulatory Authority of Ireland, HPRA? The REGRET organisation represents the parents of those...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Health Products Regulatory Authority: Chairman Designate (21 Jan 2016)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: One of the questions that I asked Ms Horan was what she would bring to her new position that would assuage any outstanding fears or concerns. We will not reopen the point about the HPV vaccine, but we will most certainly refer again to the experiences of the DePuy hip replacements and the PIP implants. Her comment that there will always be issues with health products does not give me the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health and Children: Gardasil Human Papillomavirus Vaccine: Discussion (3 Dec 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...the school vaccination programme falls short of that offered by the patient information leaflet? Ms Cannon stated that there has been significant under-reporting of adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine. For the information of Ms Cannon and her colleagues, in a parliamentary reply I received on 5 November on this matter, which I have been pursuing for some time, it is advised that the...

Cancer Screening Programme. (11 Feb 2010)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...has done the right thing in this case. I refer to the issue of cost. The Minister's original estimate or the estimate provided to her was, if I recall correctly, some €16 million for the HPV, human papilloma virus, vaccine. Now, a figure of €3 million has been indicated for this roll-out. Will the Minister explain this? An initial read would suggest the explanation of such a...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...unacceptable, certainly to Opposition voices and to many Government backbenchers. Some of these decisions have had a negative effect on the public's opinion of politics as a whole, such as the HPV vaccine programme and the cuts in special needs education. What process is used to make determinations? Does the Secretary General of the Department highlight possible cuts and does the...

Departmental Expenditure. (12 May 2009)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...decisions determined? Are the Secretaries General involved in such proposals? Who comes up with the ideas and the instances I cited in my opening question in regard to the cancellation of the HPV vaccine? Who dreamed up that proposal? In regard to the decision on special needs education where some 500 children will be deprived of the essential supports they need in the classroom, who...

Health Bill 2008: Second Stage (Resumed) (11 Dec 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: If there is loads of money, what about the HPV vaccination?

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: The decision not to proceed with the HPV vaccination programme is undoubtedly very serious. However, we learned yesterday that the HSE has confirmed that the diabetic retinopathy screening programme that was scheduled to commence this year will not now proceed because of so-called resource constraints.

Order of Business (13 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: Will the Tánaiste accept, as has already been accepted with regard to the HPV vaccine, that this is a matter of sufficient import to allow for statements in the House by the Minister for Health and Children and by each of the spokespersons on health and children?

Vaccination Programme: Motion (11 Nov 2008)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...Progressive Democrats, so long embraced fully by Fianna Fáil, were not abolished as well. Those policies unfortunately live on in Fianna Fáil and in this Government. The decision to cancel the HPV vaccination programme arose from an ethos and a policy which puts public health in second place to petty book-keeping and a privatisation agenda. The Health Information and Quality Authority...