Results 1-6 of 6 for hpv speaker:Gerard Craughwell
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (7 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: ...for the treatment of patients with head and neck cancers. The Dublin Dental University Hospital sees more than 350 new patients every year and this is on the increase, in particular with new patients every year as a result of HPV in young people. Young people are the increasing numbers. Before the funding, head and neck cancers were the only cancers where the State's input ceased once...
- Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Cancer Services (7 Feb 2024)
Gerard Craughwell: ...that the additional €500,000 will be made available. It is shocking to think that there is an increase of up to 350 patients per year and that a significant number of these are a direct result of HPV. I hope that if we send any message out today, apart from the need for funding, that it will be that people should take up the HPV vaccine and try and protect themselves as much as...
- Seanad: Harassment, Harmful Communications and Related Offences Bill 2017: Second Stage (18 Dec 2020)
Gerard Craughwell: ...and throw out any abuse one wishes. There is a misconception that it is scumbags who engage in this type of behaviour. My personal experience is that I asked a question in this House about the HPV vaccine. I asked it because I knew nothing about it and I called for a debate.Talking about online harassment and what it does, on one particular Saturday evening I found my own mental health...
- Seanad: Order of Business (25 Apr 2018)
Gerard Craughwell: About two years ago in this House I asked a question on the HPV vaccine and I was damned by the keyboard warriors-----
- Seanad: Order of Business (29 Nov 2016)
Gerard Craughwell: I wish to raise the HPV vaccine. In this State and also in the UK we have a history of burying our heads in the sand when there are issues with various drugs - Thalidomide comes to mind. We suddenly at some stage find we are in serious trouble, the drug is withdrawn and then there are legal battles lasting years. Anecdotal evidence is arriving in my office on a daily basis. I do not court...