Results 1,061-1,080 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3010. To ask the Minister for Health the number of legal claims that have been initiated against Children’s Health Ireland relating to spinal surgery, including claims of death, permanent disability, or avoidable harm since 2015, by year; the number settled; the number that remain open; and the most frequently cited grounds (details supplied), in tabular form. [42819/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3011. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the funding allocated to establish the spinal register and its associated data portal in Children’s Health Ireland; if her Department or the Health Service Executive was involved in supporting this initiative; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42820/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3012. To ask the Minister for Health the reason a spinal surgery register and public-facing data portal, which was briefly introduced at Children’s Health Ireland, was subsequently removed; the person or body that authorised its removal; the reason this decision was made without notice to families or clinicians; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42821/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3013. To ask the Minister for Health if she will request that Children’s Health Ireland commits to reinstating the spinal surgery register and public data portal; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42822/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3014. To ask the Minister for Health the review process which governs suspension type from the Children’s Health Ireland’s spinal surgery waiting list (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42823/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3015. To ask the Minister for Health the processes in place to review and reactivate long-suspended children from Children’s Health Ireland’s spinal surgery waiting lists; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42824/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3016. To ask the Minister for Health if any children have become inoperable while suspended from Children’s Health Ireland’s spinal surgery waiting lists; the number, by year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42825/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3017. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details of the children currently listed as suspended for surgery initiative from Children’s Health Ireland’s spinal surgery waiting list; the number scheduled for treatment in the UK or US; and the number scheduled for treatment in Irish private hospitals (details supplied), in tabular form. [42826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3077. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a report (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address the five key challenges identified; if she will implement the report’s recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43111/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3088. To ask the Minister for Health if she has any plans to develop and implement a national allergy strategy, given the prevalence of food allergies and the level of unmet need for one; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43196/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (29 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 3089. To ask the Minister for Health if she will establish a national allergy register to gather data, support research and inform service delivery, as recommended by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43197/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 309. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills for an update on the proposed building works at a school to provide appropriate and urgently needed teaching space for children with additional needs (details supplied); if she is aware of the length of the delays associated with the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50099/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 552. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if she is aware of the lack of sufficient childcare services, particularly after school programmes in Cork (details supplied); the progress that her Department has made to date in expanding access to after-school childcare services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49855/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 609. To ask the Minister for Health if the costing provided for in a document included hormone replacement therapy prescribed to transgender women (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 611. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the apparently contradictory information produced by her Department in advance of the free hormone replacement therapy (HRT) scheme (details supplied); if pharmacists are expected to provide any clinical information to the HSE on patients availing of the scheme; if patients are required to provide any clinical information to pharmacists to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 610. To ask the Minister for Health if a women prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the treatment of a condition can avail of the free HRT scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 612. To ask the Minister for Health if a proposal will be considered by the expert advisory group established to guide the next suicide reduction strategy (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49854/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 614. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for outsourcing a contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider, given that the National Ambulance Service already operates a well-established and fully staffed intermediate care vehicle (ICV) service; the justification for this decision being taken without any meaningful consultation with...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Contracts (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 615. To ask the Minister for Health if she will immediately review the decision of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to outsource the contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider; if she will commit to strengthening and investing in NAS resources rather than diverting public funds into private services; if she will ensure that...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 649. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the reason CAR-T cell therapy treatment has not been approved for patients over the age of 26 in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50097/25]