Results 541-560 of 1,348 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Reports (9 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 255. To ask the Minister for Health if she is aware of the Children's Health Ireland Oncology Risk Assessment (2021); if she has received a copy of this report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38324/25]

Student Fees: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Minister has got this badly wrong. He has created huge levels of uncertainty and huge levels of stress for students, parents and families right across the country. The students of Ireland deserve better. They deserve clarity. Fees in this country are already far too high. Students are paying too much money to access what is a human right: basic education at third level. A recent...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Today, the HSE made an unequivocal statement that alcohol consumption causes cancer. That is why it is ramping up efforts to inform people of the link between alcohol and cancer. However, at the same time, this Government is rowing back on its commitment to alcohol health labelling, or at least Fine Gael is. I will read a quote to the Taoiseach: "Alcohol causes cancer, and we would be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Today, the HSE made an unequivocal statement that alcohol consumption causes cancer. That is why it is ramping up efforts to inform people of the link between alcohol and cancer. However, at the same time, this Government is rowing back on its commitment to alcohol health labelling, or at least Fine Gael is. I will read a quote to the Taoiseach: "Alcohol causes cancer, and we would be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Will the Government introduce labelling?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Will the Taoiseach answer the question? Will the Government introduce labelling?

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: There is no answer.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 418. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if her attention has been brought to the lack of availability of co-educational primary schools in Cork (details supplied); the actions her Department is taking to increase the availability of co-education learning opportunities for children and parents; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37538/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 541. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to outline the reasoning behind the decision, during the biannual review, to not increase the price ceiling in Cork for houses for which support can be sought from the first home scheme; if consideration will be given to increasing the property price ceiling for houses in Galway city for which support can be sought from the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if permanent contracts of employment will be offered to all radiography and radiation therapy graduates this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 843. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm that she has received a copy of the HSE's nationwide review of insourcing and outsourcing arrangements; if she has considered its contents; if she will publish the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37540/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 886. To ask the Minister for Health if she will accept the HSE's recommendation to end insourcing arrangements in the health service by 30 June 2026; if she will commit to this deadline based on the steps to phase out insourcing provided for in the HSE's review of insourcing and outsourcing; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37838/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 856. To ask the Minister for Health if the opening hours at the medical assessment unit in Ennis Hospital are to be revised (details supplied); if so, the rational for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37714/25]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: My question today is about the new Cork city library. Four years ago, the Taoiseach, Deputy Martin, announced €50 million would be spent transforming Grand Parade and providing a new public library, a new central plaza and a boardwalk. The vision was big. We were promised a new 7,700 sq. m library with capacity for 1 million visitors per year, but like so many other key capital...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Anti-Racism Measures (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 145. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the basis on which, and by whom, the decision was taken to endorse the non-binding working IHRA definition of antisemitism; the reason this was not included in the Programme for Government; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36826/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 359. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of extending free GP care to all children under 12 years in 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36827/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 360. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing all prescription charges to €0.50, with a cap of €5 per month; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36828/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Prescriptions Charges (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 361. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated cost of reducing the drugs payment scheme maximum payment to €60 per month; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36829/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 362. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 226 of 25 June 2025, the reason a technical amendment is required to the Patient Safety (Notifiable Incidents and Open Disclosure) Act 2023 to provide HIQA with the power to carry out an independent review of a defined type of serious patient safety incident in a nursing home; the means by which she intends to bring...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Infrastructure Provision (3 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 363. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for a 20-bed inpatient neuro-rehabilitation unit for the HSE south west region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36831/25]