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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1508. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure that funding is provided to a mental health service (details supplied) following the announcement that its messaging service will close; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10759/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1575. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HIQA review into urgent and emergency care services in the midwest region; the date at which she expects the final report to be sent to her; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11031/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1577. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the status of these vacant posts in the HSE addiction service; if the HSE has begun recruitment for these posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11034/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1578. To ask the Minister for Health if she has plans to expand the chronic disease management programme; if she will consider the addition of a condition (details supplied); the process that would be required in order to have any additional condition added; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11035/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1579. To ask the Minister for Health if the appointment of a clinical nurse lead to support the implementation of the national model of care for epilepsy has been progressed; the reasons a permanent appointment has not been approved to date; if she will provide details on the allocation of time which will be given to the post; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11036/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1580. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to establish a dedicated office for alcohol in her Department to drive policy development and input into cross-departmental policy; if not, her views on this proposal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11037/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Admissions (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1583. To ask the Minister for Health if osteotomy surgeries on children have been suspended at the National Orthopaedic Hospital at Cappagh and Temple Street Children’s Hospital; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11040/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Patient Safety (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1660. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the patient safety (licensing) Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11499/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1661. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to offering permanent contracts to all graduate psychiatric nurses in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11500/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1662. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on 14 posts in a children’s mental health facility (details supplied); the status of recruitment for these posts; the number of contracts that have been issued; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11501/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Process (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1663. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to bring the Mental Health Bill 2024 to committee stage in an Oireachtas Select Committee or on the floor of Dáil Éireann; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11502/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1664. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to implementing a standard criteria for diagnosis and support for people living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD), given that Ireland is the only country in the European Union without a national diagnostic regime for FASD; if any work in this regard has commenced; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11503/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1712. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the review of the paediatric orthopaedic surgery service at Children’s Health Ireland; the date at which she expects the review to be submitted and published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11739/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1713. To ask the Minister for Health the total expenditure on contracting out radiotherapy treatment for public patients to private providers in 2024 and to date in 2025, by hospital, in tabular form. [11740/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1714. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the next implementation plan for Sharing the Vision to replace the 2022-2024 plan; the timeline she is working towards in publishing the plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11741/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Services (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1715. To ask the Minister for Health if she intends to publish the interim report on HIQA’s review into urgent and emergency care services in the midwest region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11742/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1716. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts at the HSE surgical hub south Dublin, by grade, in tabular form; and the number of posts which are vacant. [11743/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Substance Misuse (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1717. To ask the Minister for Health if she has considered the interim report of the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Drugs Use; if she will commit to a health-led response through the decriminalisation of possession of drugs for personal use; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11744/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (19 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1901. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if his attention has been drawn to a research report into the prevalence of neurodiversity among people accessing addiction services (details supplied); if he will commit to working with further and higher education institutions to ensure that all relevant educational programmes in health and social care contain a module on neurodiversity;...

International Women's Day: Statements (6 Mar 2025)

Pádraig Rice: At the outset, we need to acknowledge that we still live in a very unequal society. There is lots to be done to deliver true equality for women in Ireland. From Cabinet to boards, women are still underrepresented in positions of power. This needs to change. In particular, we need to address the inequality faced by women from minority and disadvantaged communities such as Traveller,...