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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disease Management (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 100. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a 30% rise in the incidence of tuberculosis in the past year; if she will provide an update on the implementation of ‘Striving to End Tuberculosis: A strategy for Ireland 2024-2030’; if she will publish an implementation plan and provide the necessary funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 105. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the development of a new model of care for transgender healthcare services; the current timeframe for competition of this work; if she will commit to increasing the funding provided to the development of this new model in budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52410/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Alcohol Advertising (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 192. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the advertising of zero-alcohol products in locations where alcohol advertising is prohibited under the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 (details supplied); her views on whether such advertising is a breach of the 2018 Act; if she will take steps to address this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52411/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 438. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 721 of 27 May 2025, the status of the HSE’s review of the physician associate grade; if she will publish the terms of reference for this review; the date at which she expects this review to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52748/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 439. To ask the Minister for Health if she will allocate funding in budget 2026 for post-acute inpatient neurorehabilitation beds in the south west, in line with the programme for Government commitment to develop more specialist inpatient neurorehabilitation beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52749/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 440. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 23 September 2025, the conditions included in the free hormone replacement therapy scheme under ‘medically induced menopause’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52750/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 441. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will engage with the relevant authorities regarding facilitation of these clinical placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52751/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Humanitarian Aid (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 442. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the discrepancy between her Department’s stated position with respect to medical evacuations of paediatric patients (details supplied); if the position has changed since 2024; if all children have been evacuated via Egypt; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52752/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Humanitarian Aid (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 444. To ask the Minister for Health the number of medical evacuations of Palestinian children since 2023, by year and location of evacuation. [52777/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (2 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 443. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the elective hospital for Cork; if she expects planning permission to be sought in 2026; and if she will give a commitment that, subject to planning approval, construction will begin in 2027 and the hospital will become operational in 2030, as set out in the Sláintecare 2025+ plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52754/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I welcome the commitment that insourcing will be ended by June, as the Minister indicated. I have a number of questions in that regard. The HSE report stated that 23 serving HSE employees were acting as directors of these insourcing companies. Is that still the case?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Does Mr. Gloster know if any new contracts for third-party insourcing were provided between the publication of the review in July and the controls being put in place in August?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Has the HSE given notice to third-party insourcing providers that the HSE will not renew or enter into new contracts?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I note that in the appendix to Mr. Gloster's statement, it says that insourcing can only be used for short-term initiatives approved nationally, including specific initiatives such as the assessment of need, and the others listed include ophthalmology. However, third-party insourcing cannot be used for the provision or maintenance of core services. How does the HSE define short-term initiatives?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Would things like assessment of need not be core services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: On primary care, the Minister asked the HSE to reduce the waiting times for physiotherapy, occupational therapy and speech and language therapy to less than ten months. How do the Minister and the HSE propose to reduce the waiting times for these therapies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: There is a real need to increase the HSE's own capacity here. In speech and language therapy, there is a steady output of 120 to 140 new graduates across Trinity, UCC, UL and Galway, yet in 2014 only 35 speech and language therapists were hired at staff grade. This year, 44 were hired, so there has been an increase but in 2021, the HSE hired 149 and in 2022, it hired 150. There is a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: There seems to be a real issue whereby we are training graduates but we are not hiring them, we have these long waiting lists and we are outsourcing instead of directly hiring this cohort. It is not just in this area. It happens in radiation therapy and across the board. We are training highly skilled people but not guaranteeing them employment. Our services are then lacking.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: In medicine also, we train people who are not offered intern placements out of some of our universities. There are issues whereby we are training people across a whole range of professional areas and then not guaranteeing them places in employment or increasing the staffing numbers to sustain these reduced waiting times in the long term, rather than just using short-term measures to do that....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (Resumed) (1 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I now suggest we take a five-minute comfort break. We will resume in five minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.