Results 281-300 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

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

Pádraig Rice: 679. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a proposal to establish a national radiotherapy equipment replacement programme (details supplied); if she will commit to doing so to address the critically outdated linear accelerators in many of the State’s public cancer treatment facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50354/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 689. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 20 March 2025, the number of cases diagnosed in each of the years since 2018, by condition (details supplied); the number treated with Intersex genital mutilation (IGM); in cases in which IGM was deemed necessary, to provide an indication as to the reasoning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50396/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 690. To ask the Minister for Health if the incidence of intersex genital mutilation is reducing in Ireland; if so, to provide data to support this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50397/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 691. To ask the Minister for Health the information provided to parents of intersex infants; the involvement, that intersex people have in informing and monitoring this information; if parents with intersex infants are being referred to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50398/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 696. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the draft heads of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2025; if she will commit to publication in advance of the Christmas recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50424/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 697. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the draft heads of the Health (Single Use Vapes) Bill 2025; if she will commit to publication in advance of the Christmas recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50425/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 698. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details with respect to the Regulated Professions (Health and Social Care) (Amendment) Bill, listed for priority drafting in the Government’s Autumn Legislative Programme; the proposed main provisions of the Bill; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50426/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 703. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline for the introduction of the common conditions service in community pharmacies; if it is her intention to have this service operational by year end; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50510/25]

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

Pádraig Rice: 704. To ask the Minister for Health following publication of the community pharmacy agreement 2025, to provide further details in respect of the consultation fee for the common conditions service; if a set rate has been agreed; if this fee will be covered under the medical card; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50511/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (23 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 705. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the progress that has been made on the issue of pension provision for research staff grades who do not have access to public service pensions in higher education institutions, particularly in relation to the technological university sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [50395/25]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the witnesses very much for joining us today. I welcome this second iteration of the national Traveller and Roma strategy. It is quite comprehensive. When we talk about these issues, it is always important to set out the context. We have to remind ourselves of how poorly the State has treated the Traveller community over decades and the State's consistent violation of the rights...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is there ring-fenced funding in each Department for implementation of the actions under the strategy? If we look to the Department of education or the Department of Health, would they have set funding secured under the budget to do the actions in the strategy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is there transparency and accountability by Department for the strategy? Is data available as to how much each Department is spending on the strategy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Could the Department collate what it has and provide it to the committee so that we could have a look and see how much is being spent by Department?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: My other concern relates to the dormant accounts funding, which has been mentioned. My understanding is that this varies by year and there may be an over-reliance on some of that funding for some of the programmes. Would that be correct?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I accept that, but I have some experience of analysing equality strategies and the extent to which they are implemented by Government Departments. In some cases we see some of these strategies, not particularly this one but other I worked on, where some of the actions over a number of years were not implemented. My general point is that sometimes we are very good at producing glossy...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is it Ms McEvoy's view that there is enough staff resourcing to do the work to oversee the strategy and the implementation of the strategy? Could the Department do with more staff to ensure there is implementation of the strategy?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Picking up on that point on engaging with the organisations, my understanding is the Traveller forum meets once a year. It might be more effective if it met more often, maybe twice a year. It is important there is as much engagement as possible with the organisations in the community directly on the strategy and implementation of the strategy. Ensuring organisations have capacity to review...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Implementation of National Traveller and Roma Inclusion Strategy II and Action Plan 2024-2026: Department of Children, Disability and Equality (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I echo the concerns of others about the attitudes and approach of local authorities. I welcome the cross-government approach of Departments, but at a local level I have concerns about how local authorities engage with the Traveller community, particularly in my own city of Cork. I spoke to a constituent recently, a Traveller woman with real housing need, who contacted the council on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (18 Sep 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 385. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the disruption to the authorisation of newly qualified paramedics and advanced paramedics within the National Ambulance Service; to outline the rationale for not conducting any consultation or providing an explanation for the disruption; the persons responsible for issuing the necessary letters of authorisation; the date at which these...