Results 781-800 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: The HSE is not doing the Minister's request for individual targets per consultant. Is that correct?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: The intention is to get there.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Does the HSE have a timeline of getting to individual targets for consultants?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: The Senator must allow the witnesses time to respond to the questions.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I will say to all members that if we want adequate answers from the witnesses, we need to allow them time. I will not entertain complaints that we are not getting adequate answers if we do not allow enough time for the witnesses who we have invited before us to answer the questions. There is less than a minute left, Mr. Gloster.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I thank Mr. Gloster. That is the time in that slot. We have one more slot before the break, so we will move to the next round, the next slot of which is Fianna Fáil. I call Senator Costello.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Yes. Senator-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Senator Clonan, you are out of order. Your time is up. I did warn you that you were running out of time and you did not heed that warning. The next slot is a Fianna Fáil slot. You are taking other members' time and it is unacceptable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: We will now continue our consideration of the management of waiting lists for hospital treatment and the insourcing and outsourcing of such treatment. Several members are willing to contribute in this session and each will have six minutes. I hope to give everybody a chance to contribute and ask questions. We will try to stick to the schedule as much as we can. First up is Deputy Sherlock.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I ask Mr. Gloster to respond briefly as we are out of time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I remind members that, by and large, we need to stick to the issues on which we have invited witnesses to attend. In this case, they are waiting lists and insourcing and outsourcing. If Mr. Gloster is happy to take the question, then-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: We will now take a comfort break and resume in approximately five minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: We have three slots left and three members remaining who have not spoken. We will aim to conclude on time at midday.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: That concludes our session. I thank the representatives of the HSE and the NTPF for their engagement with the committee. I know there are a number of questions we did not get answer to because of time allowances. With the witnesses' agreement we might submit written questions and get written answers to those if that is agreeable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I thank the witnesses for their time and for the preparation that went into today's work.
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Today, the HSE made an unequivocal statement that alcohol consumption causes cancer. That is why it is ramping up efforts to inform people of the link between alcohol and cancer. However, at the same time, this Government is rowing back on its commitment to alcohol health labelling, or at least Fine Gael is. I will read a quote to the Taoiseach: "Alcohol causes cancer, and we would be...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Today, the HSE made an unequivocal statement that alcohol consumption causes cancer. That is why it is ramping up efforts to inform people of the link between alcohol and cancer. However, at the same time, this Government is rowing back on its commitment to alcohol health labelling, or at least Fine Gael is. I will read a quote to the Taoiseach: "Alcohol causes cancer, and we would be...
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Will the Government introduce labelling?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Will the Taoiseach answer the question? Will the Government introduce labelling?
- An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: There is no answer.