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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-05-24/100/
24 May 2005 -
Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children (Ms Harney) A new national cancer strategy is currently...being finalised by the National Cancer Forum, a multidisciplinary group of experts in oncology....relevant age group of 50 to 64 years in every county will have access to breast screening and follow up treatment...I recently gave approval to BreastCheck to advertise for the appointment of a design team to work up...Tender notices have already been advertised in the EU Journal to expedite this major project.
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Debate: Joint Committee On Health
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2020-12-09/3/
9 Dec 2020 -
Russell To address the Deputy's question about reviews, the review only starts after the diagnosis of cancer...In 2018, all of the women were told that they had a diagnosis of cancer once that information was available...It does not change the prognosis or the treatment for the woman She will have questions....She will ask why, when she had a screening test that was normal, does she now have cancer....That review is very important but it does not change prognoses or further treatments.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-04-07/23/
7 Apr 2004 -
Martin) The national cancer forum is currently developing a new national cancer strategy....treatment services....Members of the public have been consulted through advertisements placed in the media....For example, the most up-to-date figures show that the number of new patients receiving radiotherapy treatment...The number of new patients receiving chemotherapy treatment has increased from 2,693 in 1994 to 3,519
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-02-03/96/
3 Feb 2005 -
Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children (Ms Harney) Statistics on cancer services are collated...by the National Cancer Registry....national breast screening programme to the remaining counties is a major priority in the development of cancer...that all women in the relevant age group in every county have access to breast screening and follow up treatment...It is anticipated that the advertisement for the appointment of a design team will be placed in the EU
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
he pointed out on two occasions that some drugs and new technologies extend the lives of unfortunate cancer...She said that "Senators MacSharry and Crown claim that this Bill will improve access of cancer patients...and appropriate care delivery, and high performance" and went on to say that the "objectives of this Bill
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-05-26/46/
26 May 2004 -
Martin) The national cancer forum is currently developing a new national cancer strategy....treatment services....Members of the public have been consulted through advertisements placed in the media....The key goal of the 1996 national cancer strategy was to achieve a 15% decrease in mortality from cancer...Sub-groups of the national cancer forum were established on generic screening, organisation of cancer
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Debate: Joint Committee On Health
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/joint_committee_on_health/2019-03-13/4/
13 Mar 2019 -
The figure for 2018 is more like 1.5%....The research programme in Cancer Trials Ireland seeks to develop cancer trials for patients with all...common cancers such as ovarian and pancreatic cancers....are entitled to cancer trials....When I see a person with cancer in the clinic for whom currently available treatments are no longer working
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
Senator John Crown On another point of information, nowhere in the Bill is there a suggestion patients...the recommendation of the multidisciplinary team is that a drug which is not yet available be used in treatment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2005-04-21/65/
21 Apr 2005 -
national breast screening programme to the remaining counties is a major priority in the development of cancer...that all women in the relevant age group in every county have access to breast screening and follow up treatment...The advertisement for the appointment of a design team will be placed in the EU Journal shortly....The national cancer forum, a multi-disciplinary group of cancer experts, as part of the preparation of...specific diseases such as prostate cancer.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-06-20/65/
20 Jun 2006 -
by the National Cancer Forum....involved in the provision of treatment for cancer....care from health promotion, prevention and screening through to treatment services, supportive and palliative...These screening and treatment services are available free at point of service subject to the basic public...been made with regard to smoking and smoking control in Ireland in recent years, including a ban on advertising
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
has been complex and which has not put the patient in the centre of the debate on the provision of cancer...have seen the ipilimumab, or Ipi, scenario and other scenarios, where the only recourse for vulnerable cancer...patients was to resort, as I said in my press statement, to the Joe Duffy approach to obtaining cancer...treatments which would prolong their lives or perhaps lead towards cure....Professor Crown will give examples of such drugs in regard to breast cancer, where consultants, because
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
Moloney I join colleagues in commending Senators John Crown and Marc MacSharry for bringing forward this Bill...Susan O'Reilly, director of the national cancer control programme——
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
However, what chiefly struck me in reading through the Bill was my concern that the provisions in section...3, if enacted, would leave the State open to legal action by a cancer patient or his or her family.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2009-05-06/14/
6 May 2009 -
The campaign is scheduled to commence on 11 May with national radio and magazine advertising....In parallel with this, work is under way to finalise the RIA and the heads of a Bill for consideration...inter-linked and outcomes in these areas of work will shape the final versions of the RIA and the heads of a Bill...consideration of the enforcement issue, the completion of the RIA and the drafting of the heads of the Bill...enormous benefits of preventing diseases and illnesses, the primary focus of health care systems is on treatment
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-12/20/
12 Feb 2002 -
last week, it will obviously take time for this investment to be reflected in cancer treatment services...treatment in line with the recommendations of the national cancer strategy....The House will also be aware that I advised the tobacco industry here that no further advertising or...sponsorship, other than limited retail and trade advertising, would be allowed after 1 July 2000....Areas such as protocols for the care and treatment of cancer patients, information requirements, audit
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2007-09-26/25/
26 Sep 2007 -
treatment and radium treatment for cancer patients in this country, particularly in the north west....It is entirely appropriate and timely that the first Private Members' Bill we have on the resumption...We are specifically dealing with cancer treatment here this evening....The cancer strategy was laid out a number of years ago....In every year, there are 60 to 70 breast cancer cases, 70 prostate cancer cases and 70 bowel cancer cases
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2022-02-02/8/
2 Feb 2022 -
When people are diagnosed with cancer, their first thoughts should be about their treatment, the impact...treatment or another health treatment....In 2018, the then Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, commissioned a report on parking charges....It was finalised in 2018 but has not yet been published....We do not need to discuss current gas and electricity bills again. They are outrageous.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2006-11-01/115/
1 Nov 2006 -
of cancer, including prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment, supportive and palliative care....prevent and treat cancer; standards that assure quality in all aspects of cancer control; and fairness...Heads of a Bill are being prepared for consideration by Government to regulate the use of sunbeds, including...James's Hospitals, comprising of two linear accelerators and associated treatment planning at each site...that has been made in the development of cancer control since 1997.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2002-02-12/20/
12 Feb 2002 -
It is important that it covers the time trends, variations in cancer risks, geographic differences, treatment...Offering patients access to new treatments for cancer is increasingly seen as a guarantee of high quality...treatment....the development of a clinical trials infrastructure here, given the multiplicity of cancer treatment...to outline our concerns on Second Stage of the Tobacco Bill.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
Others, as well as the director of the national cancer control programme, approved the speech.
