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Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I move amendment No. 117: In page 52, lines 7 and 8, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (11 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Minister of State mentioned ECTs in her remarks. The Social Democrats will oppose section 83 which allows for ECT for children. According to the Psychological Society of Ireland, it has not been used in the State on children in more than two decades. It is still contained in the Bill. I accept that ECT is subject to the approval of the High Court. We believe that it should never be...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 208. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade for details of engagements with the Israeli government and the Embassy of Ireland in Israel regarding the case of an individual arrested in the West Bank (details supplied); if he will condemn this arrest; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30663/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Local Authorities (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 303. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide a detailed breakdown, by county, of the funding allocated to local authorities for footpath repairs for 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29296/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Traveller Accommodation (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 867. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his Department is aware of the ongoing issues relating to the provision of emergency replacement mobiles or caravans to Traveller families affected by storm Éowyn in Cork (details supplied); if his Department has engaged with the local authority with regard to this case; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Process (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1010. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if his Department has had any consideration on bringing forward legislation concerning the introduction of silent fireworks to protect animal welfare and biodiversity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29519/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Ombudsman for Children (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1144. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide an update on recommendation three from an Ombudsman for Children report (details supplied); if this recommendation has been implemented in full; if not, the reason for the delay in doings so and the timeline for implementation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30661/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1207. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if she will supply further detail on the Programme for Government commitment to provide a dedicated funding stream for assistive and digital technology; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30204/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultants employed by the HSE, broken down by the number who are in receipt of the public-only consultant contract and the number who are not, by principal clinical site and region, in tabular form. [29033/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1284. To ask the Minister for Health the number of clinical directors employed by the health service; the details of their location and number of consultants which they are required to oversee in each case; the reporting arrangements in place to oversee the work of the directors; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29062/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1392. To ask the Minister for Health her plans for the external independent panel of surgeons with expertise in developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) surgery, following publication of the DDH Audit by Children’s Health Ireland and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh; if this panel will be made up of surgeons from different jurisdictions; the timeline being worked towards in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Investigations (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1393. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the external independent panel of surgeons with expertise in developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH) currently being established following the publication of the DDH Audit will not review cases prior to 2010; if such surgeries took place in Temple Street Hospital before 2010; if so, the number of surgeries that took place, and the period these...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1394. To ask the Minister for Health if she will conduct a review of the system of clinical directors (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29490/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1395. To ask the Minister for Health if any private companies have been contracted to answer calls to the information line established for families whose children have been identified for follow-up following publication of the developmental dysplasia of the hip audit by Children’s Health Ireland and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh; if it is exclusively specialist...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1396. To ask the Minister for Health if any surgeons are contesting the findings of the developmental dysplasia of the hip audit by Children’s Health Ireland and the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Cappagh; if any of the 14 surgeons whose cases were audited have been placed on leave; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29492/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1405. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children experiencing delayed discharge due to a delay in accessing paediatric homecare packages, both funded and those who are waiting on funding, by hospital, in tabular form. [29517/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1406. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children who experienced delayed discharges due to a delay in accessing paediatric homecare packages in March of each year from 2019 to 2025, by hospital, in tabular form. [29518/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1451. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons a specific HSE support service for parents has been moved online (details supplied); if her Department will consider reversing this decision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29715/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1452. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent speech and language therapy posts offered annually to new graduates in the HSE, in each of the past five years; to provide a compassion with the number of graduates qualifying each year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29716/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (10 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1453. To ask the Minister for Health if she is considering expanding the long-term illness scheme to include inflammatory bowel disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29718/25]