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Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Minister has got this badly wrong. He has created huge levels of uncertainty and huge levels of stress for students, parents and families right across the country. The students of Ireland deserve better. They deserve clarity. Fees in this country are already far too high. Students are paying too much money to access what is a human right: basic education at third level. A recent...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if she has concluded her review of the 2017 Dickson Report regarding Paediatric Urology; her views on same; if she intends to publish this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the Children's Health Ireland Oncology Risk Assessment (2021); if she has received a copy of this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38324/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to the lack of availability of co-educational primary schools in Cork (details supplied); the actions her Department is taking to increase the availability of co-education learning opportunities for children and parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37538/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reasoning behind the decision, during the biannual review, to not increase the price ceiling in Cork for houses for which support can be sought from the first home scheme; if consideration will be given to increasing the property price ceiling for houses in Galway city for which support can be sought from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if permanent contracts of employment will be offered to all radiography and radiation therapy graduates this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 843. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that she has received a copy of the HSE's nationwide review of insourcing and outsourcing arrangements; if she has considered its contents; if she will publish the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 886. To ask the Minister for Health if she will accept the HSE's recommendation to end insourcing arrangements in the health service by 30 June 2026; if she will commit to this deadline based on the steps to phase out insourcing provided for in the HSE's review of insourcing and outsourcing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 856. To ask the Minister for Health if the opening hours at the medical assessment unit in Ennis Hospital are to be revised (details supplied); if so, the rational for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Active Travel (10 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 180. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps his Department are taking to provide a dedicated maintenance budget to each local authority to maintain active travel infrastructure, with special reference to footpaths, as promised in the Programme for Government; when this dedicated budget is likely to be introduced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38420/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Visa Applications (10 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 278. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the reason for the delays in issuing visas for the siblings of children set to be evacuated to Ireland for medical treatment; if he is aware of the time sensitive manner of these evacuations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38473/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 338. To ask the Minister for Health the proportion of speech and language therapy posts advertised since 2019 that were below 1.0 whole-time equivalent, by year, in tabular form. [38418/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 339. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language graduates that accepted HSE contracts below 1.0 whole-time equivalent since 2019, by year, in tabular form. [38419/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We will now go into private session to consider some housekeeping matters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The joint committee will today consider the legal and policy gaps in adult safeguarding. To commence our consideration of this matter, I welcome from Safeguarding Ireland, Ms Patricia Rickard-Clarke, chairperson, Ms Annmarie O'Connor, programme manager, and Mr. Mervyn Taylor, member of the board. From the Irish Association of Social Workers, I welcome Ms Caroline Walker-Strong, chief...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Ms Walker-Strong. I thank all the organisations for the extensive consideration of the issues and the detail set out in the supporting documents, which is very helpful for our consideration of these important issues. A number of members have speaking slots in the Dáil and Seanad so may have to leave and come back. We intend to take a break at around 11 a.m. for five minutes....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The lights have gone off. They should be back in a minute. We just have to reset the lights.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Legal and Policy Gaps in Adult Safeguarding: Discussion (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We will suspend for five minutes to try to get the lights back. I reassure members that the transcript and video are still being recorded.