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Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to implementation of the new National Sexual Health Strategy 2025 – 2035 in Budget 2026; to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57564/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 204. To ask the Minister for Health the funding provided in Budget 2026, to address vaping rates among young people; to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57565/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 205. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a detailed breakdown of the €11 million in new funding for drugs and inclusion health services in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57566/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if a specific funding allocation to address Children’s Health Ireland’s spinal surgery waiting lists has been provided for in Budget 2026; if so, to provide a detailed breakdown of this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57567/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to implementation of the TB strategy in Budget 2026; to provide a detailed breakdown of the funding allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57568/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 208. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if 6,000 funded posts have been left vacant by the HSE in 2025 (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57569/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 209. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the 6,000 funded posts left vacant by the HSE in 2025 (details supplied), by grade and location, in tabular form. [57570/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Projects (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 212. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the continued implementation of the HSE Health Regions; the actions that will be taken in 2026 to further implementation; the expected date at which she expects full implementation to have taken place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57573/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Budget 2026 (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 213. To ask the Minister for Health the funding allocated to implementation of the HSE Health Regions in Budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57574/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 214. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 275 of 2 April 2025, the amount spent by the HSE on agency staffing and private recruitment firms to date in 2025, in tabular form; the services to which these payments relate; and the amount paid to each agency and firm. [57575/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 215. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time agency posts converted to HSE posts in 2024 and to date in 2025, by staff category, in tabular form. [57576/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 216. To ask the Minister for Health the number of full-time agency posts expected to be converted to HSE posts in 2026, by staff category, in tabular form. [57577/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 217. To ask the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to reduce the HSE’s reliance on agency staff; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57578/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have received apologies from Deputies Colm Burke and Sorca Clarke and Senators Maria Byrne and Teresa Costello. Deputy Donna McGettigan is substituting for Deputy Clarke and she is very welcome. I advise members of the constitutional requirement that they must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. I will not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Mr. Dempsey. I now turn to members for questions. As discussed yesterday, we will take five minute slots for this first half. Our first slot is for Fianna Fáil. I call Deputy Daly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I have a number of questions. To pick up on some of what Deputy Cullinane has said, I am hearing real concerns around funding shortages and a potential risk of fragmentation. As was said in the opening statements, cancer services used to be the jewel in the crown of the health service. I think about what could be achieved with sustained funding, a good strategy, political will, investment...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: What information has the Irish Cancer Society received from the Department regarding the role of the national cancer control programme in the budgeting process and the next strategy? What further assurances is it seeking?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I would say to the Minister, show me your budget and then I will be able to understand your priorities. We are not really seeing the priority for cancer in the budget, unfortunately, and there is no clarity there, so that question about the prioritisation is an open one. What role do you see for the national cancer control programme in those new HC structures? How should that work well...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Do you think the cancer strategy can be implemented in full by the end of 2026 or are there too many outstanding actions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Current Issues Relating to Health Services for Cancer: Discussion (22 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Briefly, what do you think should be the priority for the next strategy?