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An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I first raised the issue of children enduring unnecessary hip surgeries with the Taoiseach in March. It is nearly two months later and we are still none the wiser about what went on. A draft audit of the surgeries in three hospitals between 2021 and 2023 has been in the public domain for months. That audit found a large portion of surgeries in two of those hospitals were potentially...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to introducing health warning labels on alcohol products in May 2026; her views on her Cabinet colleagues’ comments in relation to delaying this measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24090/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 171. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to explore the recruitment of HSE-employed GPs; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24092/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 230. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the HSE’s growing reliance on outsourcing radiotherapy services to private providers; the steps she is taking to reverse this trend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24089/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 561. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to reply to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the Department will reconsider this decision; the reasons as to why this decision was communicated so late in the school year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23286/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Equipment (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 593. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills regarding circular 0032/2017, if her Department is aware that schools are instructing parents to purchase laptops only through exclusive suppliers; if consideration will be given to introduce measures to limit this practice; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23971/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reviews (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1014. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding the traction system referred to in HIQA’s review on governance of implantable medical devices at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), including use of non-CE marked springs in surgery at CHI Temple Street (details supplied); the number of children it was used on; if it was CE marked; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1015. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the national treatment purchase fund review of the nursing home pricing system, given that the programme for Government commits to doing so in early 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23285/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1042. To ask the Minister for Health to provide details regarding the private clinic located at Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) at Temple Street; the details of the contract with the private clinic; the rent per year and if that includes utilities or the use of other on site services; if the administrative staff in the private clinic are also employees of CHI on a part-time basis; if...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints Children’s Health Ireland received in 2024; the response time for complaints; the percentage of complaints which required additional time beyond 30 days; if all complaints unaddressed beyond 30 days were given updates every 20 working days until the process had concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1044. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland has a mechanism for measuring the effectiveness of its complaints process; if they publish complaint related data; and if so, to provide a copy. [23525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1045. To ask the Minister for Health the number of months Children’s Health Ireland has been operating an auto response email from its complaints office (details supplied). [23526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1046. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if a number of required positions have been filled in Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service; and the number that remain vacant, in tabular form (details supplied). [23527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1047. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the number of spina bifida multidisciplinary team clinics held in Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number at which a consultant spinal surgeon was present; and the number at which a consultant urologist was present. [23528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1048. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if urological care at Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service is urology consultant led or delivered by a non-consultant hospital doctor; if patients who attend this clinic are discussed at urology rounds or multidisciplinary team discussion with a consultant urologist present; to outline the retention procedure for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1049. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if it is Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) policy to provide food to all mothers in the postpartum period or only those who breastfeed or pump breast milk for feeding; to confirm if all mothers who arrive in CHI sites by ambulance from maternity hospitals with infants requiring incubator care, high dependency unit care or intensive care are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of amputees in Ireland is collated in a national database; if not, the reason; if she plans to establish a database of amputees to inform and improve service provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1143. To ask the Minister for Health if all amputees are guaranteed prosthetics following amputation surgery; the process for obtaining prosthetics following surgery; the funding and supports available to obtain more advanced prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1144. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Improvement Programme completed its review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services in 2024; if so, whether this review has been published; the actions that have been taken to improve provision of prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24086/25]

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Deputy Cummins for her work on the motion and also over many years on this issue and wider education issues. The pace of change is far too slow. We heard during the week in the audiovisual room from a parent who said, “I wonder if I am doing this for my children or my grandchildren.” That is how frustrated parents are about the pace of change. Across County Cork,...