Results 261-280 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 172. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details as to her instruction to her officials to engage with concerns related to the exclusion of transgender people from the free HRT scheme (details supplied); the groups or bodies her officials are engaging with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50615/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 187. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts in the HSE’s supra-regional endometriosis centre operated by Cork University Maternity Hospital, by grade; the number that are filled; the number that are vacant; and the status of these vacant posts, in tabular form. [50731/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (24 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 188. To ask the Minister for Health the number of posts in the HSE’s supra-regional endometriosis centre operated by Tallaght University Hospital, by grade; the number that are filled; the number that are vacant; and the status of these vacant posts, in tabular form. [50732/25]

School Transport: Statements (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The problems with school transport are not new. If anything, this has become an annual fiasco. My colleagues Deputies Whitmore and Cummins have been raising this matter and calling for a restructuring of the scheme for a long period. In the time afforded to me, I want to refer to the consequences for some of the families in my constituency of Cork South-Central. Several families in Cork...

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]

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

Pádraig Rice: 650. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1144 of 13 May 2025, the status of the HSE Service Improvement Programme’s review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services, which was due to be completed by Q3 2025; if it has been completed; if not, the date on which it is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

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

Pádraig Rice: 651. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Improvement Programme’s review of limb prosthetic services includes children’s provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50101/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 652. To ask the Minister for Health to respond to a campaign for reform in paediatric prosthetic provision (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address the issues identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50102/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 674. To ask the Minister for Health if she will put in place a permanent scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long covid; to replace the existing scheme which is due to expire on 31 December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50335/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 675. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons for the lack of progress in implementing the recommendations of the national radiation therapist review; the status of the implementation group; the number of times the group has met; if an implementation plan will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50341/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 676. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the growing spend on contracting out radiation therapy (RT) for public patients to private providers (details supplied); the engagements she has had with the HSE with regard to the outsourcing of RT services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50342/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 677. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2920 of 29 July 2025, to provide further details regarding the major equipment replacement programme and expansion programme underway at St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network (details supplied); the timeline for completion of the replacement project for linear accelerators in St. Luke's, Rathgar; and if she will make a...