Results 561-580 of 796 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Funding (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 436. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the funding available to schools for resources such as art therapy; if she will consider increasing supports for initiatives like this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32419/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ministerial Responsibilities (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 545. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the Minister of State at his Department who has responsibility for Traveller accommodation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32771/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 795. To ask the Minister for Health the status of plans for a 60-bed community nursing unit in Cashel, County Tipperary; if the commitment to build this new unit will still be upheld; the timeline she is working towards in delivering this new development; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32025/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 850. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details in respect of the audit into governance and equity in patient access and waiting-list management at Children's Health Ireland, commissioned by her Department and the HSE; the reason this audit will review the methods of payments by private patients to consultants; the timeline she is working towards in completing this audit; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 911. To ask the Minister for Health the date on which her Department was alerted to potential financial irregularities in relation to National Treatment Purchase Fund (NTPF) funded insourcing work at another public hospital, separate to Children’s Health Ireland; if she will identify which hospital the NTPF has suspended all insourcing work with since 11 April 2025; and if she will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 931. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she will take to ensure that adults with spinal muscular atrophy receive access to approved medicines (details supplied); if she will engage in dialogue with stakeholders regarding the current age-based exclusion; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32774/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 932. To ask the Minister for Health if the next iteration of the Tobacco Free Ireland Strategy will contain objectives relating to nicotine products, such as e-cigarettes and nicotine pouches, to keep pace with current and emerging trends; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32775/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 933. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of each cancer-related capital programme, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32776/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 934. To ask the Minister for Health to specify which cancer-related capital programmes reached appraisal stage and have now lapsed in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32777/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 935. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the status of each of the promised dedicated cancer units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32778/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 936. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made on implementing a multi-year funding approach for the health service, as committed to in the Programme for Government; the measures in place to achieve this commitment; if it is her intension to announce this in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32779/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 941. To ask the Minister for Health if the Health Information and Quality Authority has paused publication of stage-3 nursing home inspection reports; if so, the legal basis for this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32818/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I advise members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where they are not adhering to this constitutional requirement. Therefore, a member who attempts to participate from outside the precincts will be asked to leave the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are over time. Ms Nugent might give a summary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Ms Nugent. We now move to members. Each member will be allocated a ten-minute slot to put questions to the witnesses. We will move through the speaking rota as agreed on the basis of party size. I want to ensure that each member gets an opportunity to contribute. If we stick to ten minutes each, we will ensure that all members have an opportunity to speak. We will take a break at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: There are three minutes left in the slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Deputy is running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Very briefly, because we are over time.