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Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Absolutely. I also have a key concern around the implementation of the strategy and I have raised this with the Department of equality. Across a whole broad range of measures, the State suffers from implementation deficit disorder in implementing many of the great strategies we have. We have some brilliant glossy documents for strategies but many of them we have failed to implement. We...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Would IHREC agree with that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I will move on to housing. Not only are Travellers denied culturally appropriate accommodation, they are often living in conditions not fit for human habitation, which is deeply concerning. A previous submission from FLAC called for a constitutional right to housing. Is this something that IHREC supports?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Should that include specifically the right to cultural appropriate accommodation for Travellers? What is the IHREC position on that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: In addition, the Traveller accommodation expert review has called for an overhaul of the 1998 traveller accommodation Act because of its failures in terms of Traveller accommodation. Would the commission support that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: It is always important to take a intersectional approach to human rights, in particular taking account of concerns around the rights of Travellers with disabilities, LGBT Travellers and others. I have previously worked in LGBT human rights and I had concerns around IHREC's previous strategy statement for the period 2022 to 2024, which under the priority in the previous strategy talked about...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Staff (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 524. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of staff in full time positions that left their employment in a school in Cork (details supplied) between September 2021 and August 2025, by year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55430/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Post Office Network (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 537. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the reason the records of the Departmental Council of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs over the period November 1981 to December 1983 dealing with the transfer of 10,000 civil servants from that Department to An Post are not available under the Freedom of Information Act 2014. [54655/25]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Sports Funding (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 554. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the details of all funding and grant opportunities available to girls school age sports teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55429/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 657. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will commission and publish research into legal gender recognition for those aged under 16 years-of-age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54773/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Gender Recognition (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 658. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will establish a process by which Irish citizens born in Northern Ireland (NI) can access Irish gender recognition; if he will work with the United Kingdom (UK) and NI authorities to reinstate Ireland on the list of approved countries for recognising foreign gender recognition in the UK; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Ceremonies (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 717. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to confirm the location of the facility where the certificates of naturalisation provided to new citizens are printed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55384/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Qualifications (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 817. To ask the Minister for Health if incremental credit will be provided to newly appointed radiation therapists in the HSE for previous relevant experience gained in the private sector or as an agency worker in a public hospital (details supplied); the reason radiation therapists are not currently included in the categories of staff in which incremental credit may be granted for previous...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 866. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); to outline in detail the procedures undertaken by her Department for medical evacuations from Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54953/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (14 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 912. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the National Rare Disease Strategy; the status of implementation of each of its recommendations respectively; the timeline for establishing an Implementation Oversight Group and the development of an implementation plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55473/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Apologies have been received from Deputy Cullinane and Senator Costello. I express my sympathy to Senator Costello on the passing of her father. Deputy Buckley will substitute for Deputy Cullinane and Senator Rabbitte will substitute for Senator Costello. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of Leinster House...