Results 281-300 of 372 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the total amount of funding spent by each CHO on home support in each month of 2023 and 2024, in tabular form. [8481/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 323. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the new ICT system for HSE home support including the amount spent to date on its development; to estimate the total costs of procuring and implementing the ICT system; to estimate when the ICT system will be operational; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8482/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 324. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to repeated breaches of section 19 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 during sports broadcasting (details supplied); if she will ensure that the legislation is enforced ahead of upcoming sports events; if she will commit to engaging with those who are running and broadcasting these events to ensure that the legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 325. To ask the Minister for Health her views on whether section 15 of the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 is being breached by alcohol companies; if not, if she will commit to changing the definition of “advertising” in the 2018 Act to specifically include zero alcohol drinks using the same branding, logos, colours and name as their parent company; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Promotion (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 326. To ask the Minister for Health if a new Healthy Ireland Framework will be published this year; the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8509/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 327. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing a new national drug strategy; if she intends to hold a public consultation to inform development of the strategy (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8510/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 330. To ask the Minister for Health her views on a memo issued by the chief executive of the HSE to regional executive officers on 14 February 2025 regarding extended hours/days of work; her views on whether this instruction is in breach of the HSE’s responsibility to engage with staff and their union representatives through the framework agreement; and if she will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (26 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish the data provided to her regarding urgent and emergency care in February 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8547/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (25 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 814. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the amount expended on carrying out assessments of need, by month in 2024 and 2023; the total amount paid to agencies to carry out these assessments; the company names of the top beneficiaries of payments and amounts paid to each of these agencies in both years. [8116/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disabilities Assessments (25 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 815. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the HSE has contracted the services of agencies to complete assessments of need; if a tender process was conducted before contracts were awarded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8117/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (25 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 975. To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates on a home support service for older people recruitment panel in each month in 2023 and 2024, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [8113/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (25 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 976. To ask the Minister for Health the number of health care assistants recruited by the Home Support Service for Older People in each month in 2023 and 2024, by CHO and LHO, in tabular form. [8114/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (25 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 977. To ask the Minister for Health the number of candidates currently on a Home Support Service for Older People recruitment panel by CHO and LHO, in tabular form; and the number of candidates who have been on the panel for 0-12 months, 1-2 years and greater than three years. [8115/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (20 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: It is concerning that children are currently excluded from the draft regulations of home care support services. This is despite the fact that more than 650 children with complex needs are receiving these services. In the case of baby Luke, as highlighted in a report from the Ombudsman for Children today, multiple serious issues with home care services were documented. These include routine...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (20 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 340. To ask the Minister for Health the intended commencement date for the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6895/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Assisted Human Reproduction (20 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 341. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the supplementary Bill to the Health (Assisted Human Reproduction) Act 2024 (details supplied); if this will be included on the Spring priority legislative programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6896/25]

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I find it really hard to listen to the Government's rhetoric on housing. The Minister comes in here and talks about the progress the Government has made but homelessness has hit an all-time high. How is that in any sense progress? Rents and house prices are soaring, and schemes such as the help-to-buy scheme are just driving up house prices. The Government is failing people in this...

Housing Crisis: Motion [Private Members] (19 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Branding the houses as affordable increases the level of hopelessness among young people. They feel the houses are just more out of reach for them. I believe we should rename the Act the Unaffordable Housing Act because unaffordable housing is genuinely what it is delivering. We need a radical reset of housing policy. The answers to this crisis are not found in the failed policies of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (19 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 238. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE Elective Hospitals Programme Demand Model; the work completed to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6722/25]

Mental Health: Statements (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I too congratulate the Minister of State on her reappointment as Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and also her appointment as Government Chief Whip. I will talk about funding, policy and the law. On funding, for far too long mental health services have been the Cinderella of our health services. Decades of underinvestment have left us with understaffed and...