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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 913. To ask the Minister for Health the annual costs associated with the implementation of the chronic disease management programme in each of the last four years, and to date in 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34488/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Meetings (24 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 944. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills further to Parliament Question No. 297 of 12 February 2025, for an update on the status of the discussions with a union (details supplied); the reasons for the delays in these discussions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33990/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I advise members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of the Leinster House complex in order to participate in public meetings. I will not permit a member to participate where they are not adhering to this constitutional requirement. Therefore, a member who attempts to participate from outside the precincts will be asked to leave the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are over time. Ms Nugent might give a summary.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Ms Nugent. We now move to members. Each member will be allocated a ten-minute slot to put questions to the witnesses. We will move through the speaking rota as agreed on the basis of party size. I want to ensure that each member gets an opportunity to contribute. If we stick to ten minutes each, we will ensure that all members have an opportunity to speak. We will take a break at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: There are three minutes left in the slot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The Deputy is running out of time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Very briefly, because we are over time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are over time. The next slot is for the Social Democrats, so it is my time. Like others, I struggle to know where to start. We could be here for a number of days or weeks with a list of questions that could be asked on all of this. My conclusion is there is a toxic work culture in parts of CHI. There is dysfunctional internal communication and poor governance. I am not satisfied with...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: CHI is happy to share that with the committee. That is great. More generally, there are ways of disclosing things. Names can be redacted and people can be engaged with. If things are contested, that can be noted in the report. What I am hearing is this constant reluctance to disclose and share information. We need accountability, transparency and full disclosure from CHI. That is how...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Does the HSE share that view of the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I will move to the matter of the unnecessary hip surgeries, which are shocking, distressing and disturbing. I acknowledge Ms Nugent said she is equally distressed by a lot of this. Questions still remain around all of this. The audit period is a two-year period going back to 2010, but how far back does this issue go?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Dr. Okafor will have to turn his mic on and off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: That paper was based on surgeries that happened before 2010. Is that correct?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The big question that remains for many of us is why this happened. We know what happened but nobody has been able to tell us why.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I read the report. I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: How many of the children who had unnecessary hip surgeries had private health insurance?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Is CHI ruling out financial incentive as a motive and putting it down purely to philosophy?