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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Yes. Senator-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Senator Clonan, you are out of order. Your time is up. I did warn you that you were running out of time and you did not heed that warning. The next slot is a Fianna Fáil slot. You are taking other members' time and it is unacceptable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We will now continue our consideration of the management of waiting lists for hospital treatment and the insourcing and outsourcing of such treatment. Several members are willing to contribute in this session and each will have six minutes. I hope to give everybody a chance to contribute and ask questions. We will try to stick to the schedule as much as we can. First up is Deputy Sherlock.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I ask Mr. Gloster to respond briefly as we are out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I remind members that, by and large, we need to stick to the issues on which we have invited witnesses to attend. In this case, they are waiting lists and insourcing and outsourcing. If Mr. Gloster is happy to take the question, then-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We will now take a comfort break and resume in approximately five minutes. Is that agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We have three slots left and three members remaining who have not spoken. We will aim to conclude on time at midday.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: That concludes our session. I thank the representatives of the HSE and the NTPF for their engagement with the committee. I know there are a number of questions we did not get answer to because of time allowances. With the witnesses' agreement we might submit written questions and get written answers to those if that is agreeable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the witnesses for their time and for the preparation that went into today's work.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (2 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 254. To ask the Minister for Health if she will accept the Labour Court’s recommendation to extend the special scheme of paid leave for certain eligible public health sector employees suffering from long Covid until 31 December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36453/25]

Disregard of Historic Offences for Consensual Sexual Activity Between Men Bill 2025: First Stage (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Deputy Ó Snodaigh and the members of the LGBT+ Restorative Justice Campaign, Kieran Rose, Brian Sheehan, Karl Hayden and others, for their work. I am delighted to co-sign this Bill on behalf of the Social Democrats. It is now 32 years since homosexuality was decriminalised, but some men are still living with the negative impact of criminalisation. Let us be clear: the...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Animal Welfare (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 611. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if his attention has been drawn to the mistreatment of horses in County Clare (details supplied); the steps he is taking to ensure that those who are responsible for this cruelty are held accountable; to outline the legislation that is in place to protect animals when they are involved in events such as fairs; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Programme (1 Jul 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 678. To ask the Minister for Health the status of her plans to replace the Dentists Act 1985 with modern and fit-for-purpose legislation; the timeline she is working towards; if she will commit to bringing forward amendments to the 1985 Act in the interim to enhance patient safety, provide for the maintenance of professional competence, and to urgently enhance the powers of an organisation...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Tens of thousands of people will march through the streets of Dublin this weekend for Dublin Pride, a celebration of love, diversity and liberation. However, Pride is more than a party. It is a protest. Ten years on from marriage equality, progress has slowed. Hate crimes are rising and there is no plan to bring down the numbers. The gaps in family law have not been closed, conversion...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the Minister. There are ways of publishing these reports that anonymise the individuals and redact information that is key but then provide full transparency and accountability because trust in this organisation is now at an all-time low. Families are deeply concerned. We need more information released and more publications. Sunlight is a good disinfectant and CHI has been at...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 21. To ask the Minister for Health if her Department has received a copy of a 2017 report into paediatric urology services, known as the Dickson report (details supplied); if her Department was made aware of the existence of this report by Children’s Health Ireland, CHI, or anyone from Temple Street or Crumlin hospitals prior to CHI’s establishment; her views on CHI’s...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: A number of patient advocacy groups and parents have for a long time been calling for this report to be published. I urge the Minister to consider that and to consider publishing that report along with the others. What we have seen time and again from CHI are issues around transparency, accountability and a reluctance to release information, and we have had to drag that information from the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We absolutely need better planning here. A lot of this comes back to staffing. Greater resources must be allocated specifically to breast clinics to ensure adequate staffing throughout the country, regardless of where people live. To secure cancer care pathways greater workforce planning is required but this cannot be siloed in the Department of Health. We need joined-up thinking. The...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 2. To ask the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the failure of a number of symptomatic breast disease clinics to see newly referred patients within ten working days (details supplied); the steps being taken to ensure that these clinics meet their targets; if the required resources will be allocated to these clinics to ensure there is adequate staffing; to provide an...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Cancer Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Access to symptomatic breast disease clinics has become a postcode lottery. Following an urgent GP referral, a person should be seen by a clinic within two weeks. However, timely access to these clinics varies widely. Last year, only four out of nine hospitals met the target of seeing 95% of urgent referrals within two weeks. The other five failed. The Mater Hospital only reached 29%,...