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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: A number of patient advocacy groups and parents have for a long time been calling for this report to be published. I urge the Minister to consider that and to consider publishing that report along with the others. What we have seen time and again from CHI are issues around transparency, accountability and a reluctance to release information, and we have had to drag that information from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the Minister. There are ways of publishing these reports that anonymise the individuals and redact information that is key but then provide full transparency and accountability because trust in this organisation is now at an all-time low. Families are deeply concerned. We need more information released and more publications. Sunlight is a good disinfectant and CHI has been at...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Tens of thousands of people will march through the streets of Dublin this weekend for Dublin Pride, a celebration of love, diversity and liberation. However, Pride is more than a party. It is a protest. Ten years on from marriage equality, progress has slowed. Hate crimes are rising and there is no plan to bring down the numbers. The gaps in family law have not been closed, conversion...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Legislative Programme (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 119. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government for a status update on the General Scheme of the Residential Tenancies (Right to Purchase) Bill; to explain the delays in this legislation considering that pre-legislative scrutiny was completed in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34782/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Regulatory Bodies (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 226. To ask the Minister for Health to identify the legislation or statutory instrument that will provide the Health Information and Quality Authority with the power to investigate specific individual complaints; if the necessary provision has been commenced; the timeline for implementation of these powers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Civil Service (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 361. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment his Department’s policy on the disability equality training available for staff in the Civil Service; if this training includes information on reasonable accommodations and neurodiversity; if those in managerial roles are required to attend additional training on this subject; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 577. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the funding that is available for the provision of reasonable accommodations for individuals in the public sector workplace; if his Department has issued a list of pre-approved reasonable accommodations available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33984/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Funding (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 578. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection his Department’s policy on the disability equality training available for staff in the Civil Service; if this training includes information on reasonable accommodations and neurodiversity; if those in managerial roles are required to attend additional training on this subject; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 739. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the shortage of childcare facilities available in Carrigaline in Cork; to provide an update on the predicated opening of a new childcare service (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34486/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 763. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a media report regarding further alleged abuses of the National Treatment Purchase Fund (details supplied); the steps she has taken in response to these allegations; if she has engaged with the HSE, NTPF and the hospital in question on this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Appointments Status (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 912. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients who have received appointments and the condition for which they were treated under the HSE's chronic disease management programme in each of the last four years, and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34487/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 913. To ask the Minister for Health the annual costs associated with the implementation of the chronic disease management programme in each of the last four years, and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34488/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliament Question No. 297 of 12 February 2025, for an update on the status of the discussions with a union (details supplied); the reasons for the delays in these discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33990/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 54. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the new sexual health strategy has still not been published; the definitive timeline for its approval by Government and subsequent publication; if the strategy is still at design stage, as was the case in May of this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34816/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to introducing salaried GPs, employed directly by the HSE; the status of the Programme for Government commitment to ‘explore the recruitment of HSE employed GPs’; the timeline she is working towards in progressing this commitment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34814/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 27 May 2025, to provide details of the outsourced visa service provider mentioned; the total amount paid to this provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35058/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Sláintecare recommendation to remove private care from public hospitals on a phased basis; the timeline now being worked towards to implement this recommendation; the steps that have been taken to progress the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35055/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the specific funding allocated to the implementation of Sláintecare; if a ring-fenced budget has been provided to implement ‘Path to Universal Healthcare: Sláintecare and Programme for Government 2025+’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to producing an updated series of costings for Sláintecare; if her Department has carried out work to revise the costings originally provided for in appendix three of the 2017 Sláintecare report produced by the Committee on the Future of Healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Inspections (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to address the serious issues identified in safety audits at Cork University Hospital (details supplied); if HIQA or the Health and Safety Authority are actively monitoring works to ensure that the hospital becomes compliant; if any regulatory enforcement action has been taken against the hospital; and if she will make a...