Results 181-200 of 233 for narcolepsy

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Regulation (16 May 2019)

Simon Harris: ...and fourteen (114) individuals and in seventy (70) of these cases formal legal proceedings have been issued. However, these cases relate to a purported linkage between the Pandemrix vaccine and narcolepsy rather than Chronic Fatigue Syndrome. The Health Products Regulatory Authority (HPRA) is responsible for monitoring the safety and quality of all medicines including vaccines that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (2 Oct 2018)

Simon Harris: ...SA have been initiated by seventy three individuals and in 61 of these cases formal legal proceedings have been issued. The plaintiffs allege personal injury in which they claim the development of narcolepsy resulted from the administration of the H1N1 pandemic vaccine. The management of these cases transferred to the State Claims Agency on 15 October 2013 when the Taoiseach signed...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (31 Mar 2021)

Denis Naughten: ...such files exist, not just in the Department of Health but in other Departments. It is imperative that this issue is fully clarified, not just with regard to autistic children but to the Pandemrix narcolepsy cases, the audiology misdiagnoses in the west of Ireland and even with regard to cervical cancer cases. We need absolute clarity on this and we need the Minister to come before the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Nov 2013)

James Reilly: My priority as Minister for Health is to ensure that those diagnosed with narcolepsy following pandemic vaccination are provided with a wide range of services and supports to meet their health needs. Both the Health Service Executive and the Department of Education and Skills, at my request, are ensuring that those affected receive tailored assistance to address their individual...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: HSE National Service Plan (18 Dec 2013)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...will be seen in the course of 2014, given that the window for young people who are challenged by hearing loss is limited as time passes? There is provision of approximately €500,000 in respect of narcolepsy and the victims of Pandemrix. What services will that provide? To conclude, it is really unacceptable that the Minister is circulating this plan at 10.15 this morning. We...

Seanad: Order of Business (10 Jul 2014)

Michael D'Arcy: I do not know if I have ever heard so many clichés in a sentence. I wish to raise the case of State citizens who were given a flu vaccination and who now suffer from narcolepsy. To my great disappointment, the current Minister for Health has done nothing for them. I am hopeful that if there is a change in the Department of Health, the incoming Minister - whoever he or she may be -...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Vaccination Programme: Discussion (11 May 2017) See 3 other results from this debate

...conducted a study here in Ireland that actually replicated what had happened in Scandinavia and showed that there was an explicit link between the vaccine and those, predominantly children, who got narcolepsy. We were part of that process, as Dr. Gilvarry has said. Dr. O'Flanagan carried out the study which showed very clearly that there was a link. That has formed part of our process...

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency (15 May 2018)

Simon Harris: ...Minister, the Health Services Executive and GlaxoSmithKline Biological SA have been initiated by seventy individuals. The plaintiffs allege personal injury in which they claim the development of narcolepsy resulted from the administration of the H1N1 pandemic vaccine. The management of the cases transferred to the State Claims Agency (SCA) on 15 October 2013 when the Taoiseach signed the...

Seanad: Business of Seanad (13 Dec 2011)

Paddy Burke: ...5 December. I have also received notice from Senator Deirdre Clune of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to respond to the concern of parents whose children have developed narcolepsy as a possible result of receiving the swine flu inoculation. I have also received notice from Senator Brian Ó Domhnaill of the following matter: The need for the Minister for Health to...

Public Accounts Committee: 2013 Annual Report of the Comptroller General and 2014 Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38: Health
Chapter 13: Irish Blood Transfusion Service Pension Funding (8 Oct 2015) See 2 other results from this debate

Áine Collins: Those who were involved in the hepatitis C scheme and other vaccination schemes had to wait a long time. There is also an issue in respect of narcolepsy, which resulted from the vaccine given for swine 'flu. The lives of some young people and families have been transformed and they are waiting for support from the Department. This is a huge burden on families as they need extra support to...

Topical Issue Matters (23 Jan 2014)

Charlie McConalogue: ...2) Deputy Patrick Nulty - the overcrowding in the accident and emergency department in Connolly Hospital Blanchardstown, Dublin 15; (3) Deputy John O'Mahony - the concerns of families who have children with narcolepsy; (4) Deputy Shane Ross - the lack of premises for Gaelcholáiste an Phiarsaigh, Dundrum, County Dublin; (5) Deputy Richard Boyd Barrett - the lack of premises for...

Leaders' Questions (4 Apr 2017) See 1 other result from this debate

Enda Kenny: ...sought, seems to have had a sudden change of direction. We will follow that up for the Deputy. The Minister for Health has met representatives of SOUND, which is the support group for people with narcolepsy, in recent days. He has sanctioned the go-ahead for the centre of excellence for sleep disorder at St. James's Hospital. This has been sought for a very long time and has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (2 Apr 2019)

Simon Harris: ....     As the Deputy is aware, the issue referred to in her question is the subject of ongoing litigation where the plaintiffs allege personal injury in which they claim the development of narcolepsy resulted from the administration of the H1N1 pandemic vaccine.  These cases transferred to the State Claims Agency on 15 October 2013 when the Taoiseach signed the...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Dec 2013)

Michael D'Arcy: ...to have learned nothing about what happens when the State neglects small groups of people, for example, in the cases of the former residents of the Magdalen laundries and those who are affected by narcolepsy. The manner in which the HSE holds the line and thereby inflicts further distress on individuals and families is not acceptable. I would like us to address it in this Chamber.

Written Answers — Department of Health: State Claims Agency Data (17 May 2018)

Simon Harris: ...Minister, the Health Services Executive and GlaxoSmithKline Biological SA have been initiated by seventy individuals. The plaintiffs allege personal injury in which they claim the development of narcolepsy resulted from the administration of the H1N1 pandemic vaccine. The management of the cases transferred to the State Claims Agency on 15 October 2013 when the Taoiseach signed the...

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

Clare Daly: ...to take steps to deal with them. It is inevitable, when one is giving a drug to hundreds of thousands of people, that small numbers will not react to it well. We know what happened in the Pandemrix situation which caused narcolepsy in some recipients. It happened with the three-in-one vaccine administered in Ireland in the 1970s which caused brain damage in a very small number of cases....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Court Judgments (8 Sep 2020)

Stephen Donnelly: ...statutory remit to manage personal injury claims on behalf of Delegated State Authorities including the Health Service Executive. The management of cases taken by persons who allege they developed Narcolepsy and/or Cataplexy as a result of receiving the H1N1 vaccine, Pandemrix, is delegated to SCA and, as such, the Government has no role in determining how these cases are conducted. I am...

Written Answers — Vaccination Programme: Vaccination Programme (18 Oct 2011)

James Reilly: ...Medicines Board published regular updates on national monitoring experience with the vaccines used on its website. Since then, the IMB has received information on reports of suspected cases of Narcolepsy in some patients who received one of the vaccines, Pandemrix, in Ireland and is working in consultation with other national organisations including the Health Service Executive and the...

Seanad: Order of Business (2 Apr 2015) See 2 other results from this debate

John Whelan: ...for accepting my Commencement debate. I am grateful to my colleague, Senator Landy, for his support on the matter. It was not an altogether satisfactory reply on the children who suffer from narcolepsy. I support Senator Landy. Will the Leader to ensure the Minister for Health comes to the House at the earliest opportunity to explain why the HSE and the Department of Health are about...

Topical Issue Matters (18 Dec 2013)

Seán Barrett: ...9) Deputy Niall Collins - the proposal to re-designate solicitors of the legal aid board from public servants to civil servants; (10) Deputy John O'Mahony - the concerns of families who have children with narcolepsy; (11) Deputy Brendan Smith - the recent publication covering acts of collusion between the British state and loyalist paramilitaries; (12) Deputy Martin Ferris - to discuss...