Results 381-400 of 796 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints Children’s Health Ireland received in 2024; the response time for complaints; the percentage of complaints which required additional time beyond 30 days; if all complaints unaddressed beyond 30 days were given updates every 20 working days until the process had concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1044. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland has a mechanism for measuring the effectiveness of its complaints process; if they publish complaint related data; and if so, to provide a copy. [23525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1045. To ask the Minister for Health the number of months Children’s Health Ireland has been operating an auto response email from its complaints office (details supplied). [23526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1046. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if a number of required positions have been filled in Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service; and the number that remain vacant, in tabular form (details supplied). [23527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1047. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the number of spina bifida multidisciplinary team clinics held in Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number at which a consultant spinal surgeon was present; and the number at which a consultant urologist was present. [23528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1048. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if urological care at Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service is urology consultant led or delivered by a non-consultant hospital doctor; if patients who attend this clinic are discussed at urology rounds or multidisciplinary team discussion with a consultant urologist present; to outline the retention procedure for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1049. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if it is Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) policy to provide food to all mothers in the postpartum period or only those who breastfeed or pump breast milk for feeding; to confirm if all mothers who arrive in CHI sites by ambulance from maternity hospitals with infants requiring incubator care, high dependency unit care or intensive care are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of amputees in Ireland is collated in a national database; if not, the reason; if she plans to establish a database of amputees to inform and improve service provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1143. To ask the Minister for Health if all amputees are guaranteed prosthetics following amputation surgery; the process for obtaining prosthetics following surgery; the funding and supports available to obtain more advanced prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1144. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Improvement Programme completed its review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services in 2024; if so, whether this review has been published; the actions that have been taken to improve provision of prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24086/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 347. To ask the Minister for Finance the annual increases in the retail price of the most popular price category MPPC for a 20-pack of cigarettes since 2014; the portion of the increase related to taxes; the portion of the increase due to price rises by the tobacco industry, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25939/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Data (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 348. To ask the Minister for Finance the estimated revenue that would be raised from a taxation measure (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25940/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 349. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of persons successfully prosecuted for tobacco and or cigarette smuggling in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [25941/25]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Illicit Trade (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 350. To ask the Minister for Finance the resources he is allocating to the Revenue Commissioners for new or improved enforcement actions to combat illicit tobacco smuggling; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25942/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 590. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will revisit his predecessor’s decision not to accept and apply the European Commission’s 2022 recommendation to recognise Covid-19 as an occupational illness; his views on same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 740. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the mistreatment of horses in Clonmel, County Tipperary (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure that those who are responsible for this cruelty are held accountable; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25943/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 799. To ask the Minister for Health if she will establish a clinical programme for pulmonary fibrosis, to ensure that patients receive the highest standard of care and equitable access to a range of specialist healthcare supports; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25274/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 800. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the clinical care pathway advisor for pulmonary fibrosis has not yet begun their work; the timeline she is working towards in ensuring this person is in post with supporting resources; the reason the supporting programme manager has still not commenced their work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25275/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 801. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the €1 million funding allocated to pulmonary fibrosis, including the specific line items detailed in the 2025 HSE national service plan (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25276/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (20 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 802. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to ensure that oxygen provision for people with lung fibrosis is fit for purpose; if consideration will be given to a proposal (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25277/25]