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HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Brendan Howlin: ...from proven treatment. Millions of people are alive because of vaccination. The 2008 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was jointly awarded to Harald zur Hausen for his work on identifying HPV as a cause of cervical cancer. His discoveries in the 1970s and through the 1980s were groundbreaking as they went against the dogma of the time on how cancer was caused. There are more...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Catherine Byrne: ...women will need hospital treatment to remove precancerous changes in the cervix. Some 99% of cervical cancer is caused by persistent infection of certain high-risk types of human papilloma virus, HPV, which is acquired during sexual contact. HPV vaccination prevents this. In September 2010 the HPV vaccination programme was introduced for all girls in first year of second level...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Danny Healy-Rae: Cancer is a desperate disease that affects so many people. Having attended the funerals of so many young women who have passed away because of cancer, I would certainly advise people to have the HPV vaccine. There is a lot of weight behind its approval. I have to acknowledge the people I have met, young girls who have had an adverse reaction to this vaccine. It really did affect them. I...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Jan O'Sullivan: ...is very welcome. That is really important. As Deputy Bríd Smith observed, the concept of vaccination has saved millions of lives around the world. The motion relates specifically to the HPV vaccine and its extension to boys. The background is that the percentages of take-up among girls who were being offered it in schools had fallen to 50%. Thankfully, it has now increased...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Clare Daly: ...To insert the following words after "secondary school; and":"calls on the Government to: — instruct the HSE to engage with those who have experienced health problems in the time period after receiving the HPV vaccine in order to determine the cause of that damage; — ensure proper medical and other support is available to those who have suffered health problems in the time...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Michael Harty: I will speak in favour of this motion. The human papilloma virus, HPV, causes cervical cancer and a vaccine to prevent such a cancer is welcome. HPV is sexually transmitted and, therefore, it makes absolute sense that both boys and girls should be vaccinated against this virus. This would have two effects. First, it would reduce the transmission of the virus; and, second, it would reduce...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Bríd Smith: ...World Health Organization, the number of measles-related deaths decreased by 79% in the 21st century up to 2014. Measles vaccination has played a key role in reducing child mortality. As to the HPV vaccine, we know that more than 90% of cervical cancers are caused by HPV, a disease which killed 270,000 girls worldwide in 2012, while 10% of women have required invasive treatment for a...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Fiona O'Loughlin: The figures for cervical cancer and the HPV vaccine in this country are quite stark indeed. Every year, over 6,500 women need hospital treatment for pre-cancer of the cervix. We learn that a woman is diagnosed with cervical cancer almost every day. Almost two women die every week from it. Those figures speak for themselves. Cervical cancer is caused by HPV. The HPV vaccine, which since...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Louise O'Reilly: I thank Deputy Alan Kelly and Members of the Labour Party for introducing this motion. We will be supporting it. There can be no equivocation. The HPV vaccination programme and information campaign must be supported, and it must be supported by all of us. We have to lead by example on this. Cervical cancer is the second most common type of cancer that affects women worldwide. It is linked...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

John Brassil: .... What got the issue very clearly over the line in my mind was that in Australia and in Finland, studies were taken out on the frequency of chronic fatigue syndrome prior to the human papillomavirus, HPV, vaccine being administered. They were then able to compare data to the vaccinated population. As it turned out, the incidence was no higher or lower. It was exactly the same. As...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Niamh Smyth: ...more than 6,500 women need hospital treatment for pre-cancer of the cervix. Some 300 women get cervical cancer, and ultimately 90 women die from it each year. Cervical cancer is caused by the HPV and we must trust the full spectrum of Irish health professionals, the World Health Organization, WHO, the Irish Cancer Society, the Chief Medical Officer and the general medical advice which...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Marc MacSharry: I support vaccination for the HPV and the benefits it can bring to young girls, young women and boys. My colleague said that we must trust the Health Products Regulatory Authority, HPRA, the European Medicines Agency, the HSE and all of our physicians, and of course we want to do so. It is not a case of scaremongering or anything like that, but I remember when many of us here in this House...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Billy Kelleher: ...quite clear, and we can only make policies in this Chamber that affect not only the health but the lives of people based on such evidence. If one looks at the international reviews of the various HPV vaccines, it is clear that it is very safe and that it saves lives. In this country alone, it will save the lives of 90 women every year. The fact that there was a drop-off in the take-up...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Simon Harris: ...unanimously support the Labour Party's motion. The most important line in the motion is the one calling on Dáil Éireann to support unanimously the campaign to encourage parents to avail of the HPV vaccine for their children in their first year of secondary school. I certainly hope there is no Member of this House who would have any difficulty with supporting that call. It is...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: I move:“That Dáil Éireann:recognises that:- the Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine protects young girls from developing cervical cancer when they grow up; - vaccinating pre-teen boys also protects them against HPV-related cancers later in life; - the Health Service Executive (HSE) estimates that 300 Irish women get cervical cancer every year, with up to 90 deaths; and -...

HPV Vaccine: Motion [Private Members] (28 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: .... It is irresponsible and the targeting of certain schools is not justifiable or fair because, in response, we have seen a difference in the take-up of the vaccine in disadvantaged schools. The HPV vaccine is completely safe and is endorsed by the Irish College of General Practitioners, ICGP, the Irish Pharmacy Union, the Irish Cancer Society and by major medical and scientific bodies...