Results 901-920 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2570. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 254 of 9 July 2025, if her Department has concluded its review of the 2017 Dickson Report regarding Paediatric Urology; if it has received the initial assurances and additional information sought from the HSE; if she will publish the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46791/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2571. To ask the Minister for Health if a medication for post-excision management of endometriosis (details supplied) will be added to the drug payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46792/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2572. To ask the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the importance of long-term medication access for women recovering from severe endometriosis is recognised; if she will prioritise investment in multidisciplinary care pathways to reduce the long-term cost burden on the health system by preventing repeat surgeries as a result of endometriosis; and if she will make a statement on the...

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

Pádraig Rice: 2573. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 379 of 10 April 2025, to confirm if the four new allergy service beds that will be opened in the new National Children’s Hospital represents a reduction in the number of beds currently available to children with allergy based conditions (details supplied); the number available to children with allergy based conditions across public...

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

Pádraig Rice: 2574. To ask the Minister for Health to list the service providers used by the HSE and Section 28 hospitals to store patient data; if, in each case, this data is being stored in this jurisdiction or on international servers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46795/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 2575. To ask the Minister for Health further to PQ no. 2679 of 29 July 2025, the status of the HSE’s consideration of the recommendation of the Medicines Management Programme (MMP) to reclassify high-protein ONS to List B; if her attention has been brought to the rebuttal of the MMP’s interpretation of ONS cost data by experts in clinical nutrition (details supplied); if she...

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

Pádraig Rice: 2578. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the HSE’s new rules surrounding travel and subsistence allowances; to detail the changes that have taken place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46799/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2579. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to review the drugs reimbursement process; if work has commenced on advancing this commitment; the timeline she is working towards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46800/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2638. To ask the Minister for Health the number of people who were referred for a colonoscopy under BowelScreen; and the number of people offered a colonoscopy appointment within the recommended 28 days under BowelScreen in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [47099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2639. To ask the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure nicotine pouches cannot be legally sold to children under 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47100/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2640. To ask the Minister for Health when a draft of the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47101/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Reviews (8 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2732. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the review of QQI Level 5 awards for healthcare assistants and pre-nursing students in the further education sector; the work carried out to date; the timeline for completion of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46801/25]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the witnesses very much for joining us today. I welcome this second iteration of the national Traveller and Roma strategy. It is quite comprehensive. When we talk about these issues, it is always important to set out the context. We have to remind ourselves of how poorly the State has treated the Traveller community over decades and the State's consistent violation of the rights...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is there ring-fenced funding in each Department for implementation of the actions under the strategy? If we look to the Department of education or the Department of Health, would they have set funding secured under the budget to do the actions in the strategy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is there transparency and accountability by Department for the strategy? Is data available as to how much each Department is spending on the strategy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Could the Department collate what it has and provide it to the committee so that we could have a look and see how much is being spent by Department?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: My other concern relates to the dormant accounts funding, which has been mentioned. My understanding is that this varies by year and there may be an over-reliance on some of that funding for some of the programmes. Would that be correct?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I accept that, but I have some experience of analysing equality strategies and the extent to which they are implemented by Government Departments. In some cases we see some of these strategies, not particularly this one but other I worked on, where some of the actions over a number of years were not implemented. My general point is that sometimes we are very good at producing glossy...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is it Ms McEvoy's view that there is enough staff resourcing to do the work to oversee the strategy and the implementation of the strategy? Could the Department do with more staff to ensure there is implementation of the strategy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Picking up on that point on engaging with the organisations, my understanding is the Traveller forum meets once a year. It might be more effective if it met more often, maybe twice a year. It is important there is as much engagement as possible with the organisations in the community directly on the strategy and implementation of the strategy. Ensuring organisations have capacity to review...