Results 701-720 of 786 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

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...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We learned today that the potential cost of the national children's hospital has soared by €100 million in just a matter of months. It now stands at nearly €2.5 billion, although no one believes this will be the final cost. It is outrageous that after all this time, nobody in this House knows for sure how much this project will ultimately cost or when it will start treating...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The latest estimate is that it will be at least another year. This is the biggest capital investment in the health service in the history of the State and it has been a botched project.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We need time set aside to have a discussion on this fiasco. We need an update on this from the Minister.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Legislative Programme (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 119. To ask the Taoiseach the date on which the Spring legislative programme will be approved and published. [6320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 210. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to inordinate delays for driving tests in Cork, with people waiting since October 2024 for the opportunity to book a test; the reason for these delays; if his Department will work with the Road Safety Authority to ensure that waiting times are reduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (18 Feb 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 248. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport for an update on the Cork metropolitan area transport strategy; to outline the progress to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6327/25]