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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-12-12/23/
12 Dec 2018 -
Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: First Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-11/104/
11 Apr 2019 -
Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members]
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-16/35/
16 May 2019 -
Treatment of Cancer (Advertisements) Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members]
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-12-12/23/
12 Dec 2018 -
treatment of cancer and to provide for related matters....This Bill seeks to provide greater protection for patients who receive cancer diagnoses and are then...The origins of the Bill lie in the concerns of the cancer care community....Anyone who advertises a treatment or therapy that has been proven to be effective will be exempt from...It is for the people we may know who are going through cancer treatment and the people we have lost that
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-11/104/
11 Apr 2019 -
The Deputy’s Bill has much merit, particularly as its purpose is to protect cancer patients and their...that it is claimed provide a cure for cancer....or diets for curing cancer....In the treatment of cancer or any disease, patients should only receive competent medical advice and...We must also ensure that, if enacted, the Bill does not offend free trade rights, such as advertising
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-05-16/35/
16 May 2019 -
Everybody here has family or friends who have experienced cancer. We know the range of treatments....are not given false hope through advertisements for treatments that have no scientific credence....While we need a deterrent for unscrupulous businesses advertising treatments that are taking advantage...medicines licensed by the European Medicines Agency between 2015 and 2017 were available in Ireland in 2018...It is difficult to discuss this Bill with its narrow remit without looking at the wider aspects of cancer
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2018-12-12/23/
12 Dec 2018 -
The Taoiseach I express my strong support for the Private Member's Bill proposed by Deputy Kate O'Connell...We have seen enormous improvements in cancer care in Ireland over the past few decades with the result...that more people with cancer now survive than die....improvements in that regard as screening and prevention improve and as we make improvements to our cancer...offering cures and treatments which do not work along with various other false health claims.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-11/104/
11 Apr 2019 -
Deputy Maureen O'Sullivan I acknowledge the extent of work that goes into a Private Members' Bill,...With the advances made in cancer treatment, cancer is not the death sentence that it once was....We see a range of treatments and medicines....To have advertising for a product claiming a health benefit with no proof of that is damaging, especially...Looking at the overall picture, while I know that this Bill is pursuing one specific aim, it is important
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-11/104/
11 Apr 2019 -
treatment of cancer, or which suggests that a medical consultation, diagnosis, treatment or surgical...operation is unnecessary for the treatment of cancer....The intention behind the Bill is to focus on the publication of advertisements and to prohibit people...treatment....We also have to be sure that cancer treatment in the health service as a whole is properly resourced.
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-11/104/
11 Apr 2019 -
much more worrying is that in some reported cases, patients are encouraged to stop with their medical treatment...from medical treatment for the disease....who have cancer....In fairness to the HSE, it funded the treatment and now Laya Healthcare has taken it on....There is a rich vein of thinking behind the Bill and perhaps we could go beyond cancer and apply the
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: Second Stage
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-04/4/
4 Jul 2012 -
Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012: First Stage
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2019-04-11/104/
11 Apr 2019 -
The fake news headlines that try to promote miracle cures or dangerous alternative treatments are the...treatments or cures that, at best, have no proven effect whatsoever and, at worst, increase suffering...the patient will not be the one found at fault, but the people who provide, promote, publicise and advertise...The choice will remain for the patient to opt for proven or unproven treatments....We must build on and improve the established standards in cancer research and treatment, ensuring we
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Debate: Dáil Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/dail/2004-06-22/105/
22 Jun 2004 -
cancer strategy which is expected to be completed later this year....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: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
in this building who is more qualified to discuss cancer treatment than him....This Bill is timely in that it proposes to place access to cancer treatment drugs on a statutory footing...This Bill attempts to make the provision of cancer drugs more efficient and to set it within parameters...This Bill is an attempt to regularise the system and make sure that people who need it get the treatment...Access to cancer treatment is something he believes in strongly.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
Senator Mark MacSharry opened the debate by acknowledging the work done at the coalface of cancer treatment...The Government does not intend to accept the Access to Cancer Treatment Bill 2012....The Bill would give responsibility for decisions on the availability of cancer drugs to the EMA, an external...Adopting the position suggested in the Bill, that is, that products for cancer treatment approved by...The Senators claim that the Bill would improve the access of cancer patients to much needed drugs.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-06-13/6/
13 Jun 2001 -
When the patient has cancer the diagnosis and treatment must be carried out in a systematic fashion and...treatment tailoring and participation in clinical trials....research, to improve the standard of cancer treatment, enhance communication and encourage breast cancer...The question of advocacy was also debated earlier today on Committee Stage of the Mental Health Bill....The House discussed the Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill and women with private health insurance often
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-04/4/
4 Jul 2012 -
Senator Darragh O’Brien I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to ensure...the provision by the Health Service Executive of all prescribed medicinal products necessary for the treatment...of cancer in line with best practice and upon approval of the European Medicines Agency.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2001-06-13/6/
13 Jun 2001 -
I welcome the opportunity to brief the Seanad on developments in the area of cancer care and treatment...The reorganisation of our cancer treatment services was an integral part of this strategy and targets...and screening, additional consultant appointments in key areas of cancer treatment and care, and cancer...initiatives to address the current shortage of suitably skilled radiographers, including an international advertising...In 1994, there were 12,682 primary surgery treatments for cancer.
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Debate: Seanad Éireann
https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/debates/debate/seanad/2012-07-11/26/
11 Jul 2012 -
While focusing on access to cancer treatment, the Bill seems to ignore the issue of access to cancer...I spoke recently to a constituent who was refused a card despite being in active treatment....Our priority at this time should be to ensure that anybody undergoing cancer treatment is eligible for...I would have liked to see an emphasis in the Bill on cancer services as well as treatment....My main concern, however, is that the Bill contains provisions which might leave the State vulnerable
