Results 741-760 of 796 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Deputy's time is up. We will get a brief answer to that question.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are now slightly ahead of our planned break so we will take it now and then resume our session.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I invite the Minister to speak.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We appreciate that. I thank the Minister. Our next slot is a Fianna Fáil slot. I call Deputy O'Sullivan.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have two Deputies remaining who have not spoken. Deputy Roche has just stepped out. We will take Deputy Cahill's questions first. If Deputy Roche is back, he will get ten minutes. There will be a short three-minute time slot for the remaining members. We will conclude before 12 noon.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have one more speaker in the first round. However, it might be of interest to members that there is an audiovisual room briefing at 1 p.m. by Cian's Kennels, which is an organisation that connects children in hospital with family pets and organists visits of dogs to hospital. It sounds like a worthy cause. I call Deputy Roche.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are just on time, so I ask the Deputy to be brief.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: As we have some additional speaking time, I propose that we take a few minutes to allow members to ask any remaining burning questions they have. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: For the Deputies' information, we have an additional speaking slot and the next speaker is from Sinn Féin.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We want to try to get everybody in. The Minister wishes to comment briefly.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I have a brief question on multi-annual funding. Under the Department's high-level priorities for 2025, it states it wants to create certainty for the delivery of health projects through multi-annual budgeting. A multi-annual approach to health funding is also in the programme for Government. I think this is a key commitment that must be progressed as it will help to put HSE-funded...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have two slots remaining and then we will conclude before 12 o'clock. Deputy Cahill, you have three minutes.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Deputy Burke, we are out of time. We have already brought you back in.

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: For members' information, regarding the issue raised by Deputy Cullinane on the review, we have received correspondence from the Department on it. It has notified the committee and I thank it for the detailed information on the question. I thank the Minister and Ministers of State for their attendance today, together with their officials. There are a number of items on which we are to...

Select Committee on Health: Message to Dáil (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: In accordance with Standing Order 110, the following message will be sent to the Dáil: The Select Committee on Health has completed its consideration of the following Further Revised Estimate for Public Services for the service of the year ending 31 December 2025: Vote 38 - Health

Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh and the members of the LGBT+ Restorative Justice Campaign, Kieran Rose, Brian Sheehan, Karl Hayden and others, for their work. I am delighted to co-sign this Bill on behalf of the Social Democrats. It is now 32 years since homosexuality was decriminalised, but some men are still living with the negative impact of criminalisation. Let us be clear: the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: My question relates to the insourcing and outsourcing of public healthcare. Yesterday, the Minister for Health published the HSE review of insourcing and outsourcing, which I welcome. The report confirms that the health service are over-reliant on these arrangements to reduce waiting lists. Despite the huge sums of public money involved, proper oversight has been severely lacking, leading...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the mistreatment of horses in County Clare (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure that those who are responsible for this cruelty are held accountable; to outline the legislation that is in place to protect animals when they are involved in events such as fairs; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the status of her plans to replace the Dentists Act 1985 with modern and fit-for-purpose legislation; the timeline she is working towards; if she will commit to bringing forward amendments to the 1985 Act in the interim to enhance patient safety, provide for the maintenance of professional competence, and to urgently enhance the powers of an organisation...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if she will accept the Labour Court’s recommendation to extend the special scheme of paid leave for certain eligible public health sector employees suffering from long Covid until 31 December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36453/25]