Results 81-100 of 874 for speaker:Pádraig Rice
- 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]
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages (3 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: 364. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 319 of 26 February 2025, if she will commit to investigating the delays in accessing home care in Cork (details supplied); if she will develop an action plan to reduce waiting lists and waiting times in Cork and the south west; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36832/25]
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: My question relates to the insourcing and outsourcing of public healthcare. Yesterday, the Minister for Health published the HSE review of insourcing and outsourcing, which I welcome. The report confirms that the health service are over-reliant on these arrangements to reduce waiting lists. Despite the huge sums of public money involved, proper oversight has been severely lacking, leading...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: We will go into private session to consider some housekeeping matters.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I welcome everyone to the Joint Committee on Health. Today, the committee will consider the management of waiting lists for hospital treatment and the insourcing and outsourcing of such treatment. To commence our consideration of this matter, from the HSE I welcome Mr. Bernard Gloster, chief executive; Ms Sandra Broderick, regional executive officer for HSE mid-west; Mr. Stephen Mulvany,...
- 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 move to questions from members, operating from our speaking rota. We aim to take a five-minute break in about an hour's time. Each member will be given a speaking slot of ten minutes. We will move through the rota. Deputy Sherlock is currently in the Dáil so may miss her slot, but when she comes in I propose to take her at that point, if members are agreeable.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I have a number of questions. Looking at the report published last night, one of the things that jumped out at me was the key concerns related to insourcing. They are concerns that have been articulated within the House previously. Insourcing led to the potential of: creating conflicts of interest; non-compliance of procurement rules; inequitable use of public funds; disincentivising...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: I understand it takes time, but it is taking too much time. I wish to tease out some of the pieces on the employees acting as company directors and some of those numbers. The report states that 83 current or former health service staff were employees acting as directors in 148 companies involved in outsourcing. Of those, 58 were HSE and 25 were section 38 employees. A breakdown of the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Are there issues in accessing data from the section 38s?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Will Mr. Gloster give us a breakdown of the locations of serving members of staff who are also acting as directors in these companies?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Does Mr. Gloster have a figure for CHI?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Yes, the number of employees who are acting as directors.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: Mr. Gloster might get that figure if he can. The other piece I was unsure about when reading report was on page 8, where there is a reference to a derogation on a particular type of insourcing. Can Mr. Gloster explain that?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Management of Hospital Waiting Lists and Insourcing and Outsourcing of Treatment: Discussion (2 Jul 2025)
Pádraig Rice: With regard to some of the clinical targets, the then Minister for Health, Stephen Donnelly, wrote to the HSE last year to request that outpatient clinical targets for individual consultants, departments and specialties be agreed. This was in the context of budget 2025 and the need to maximise productivity. Have these been actioned? The new dashboard shows the number of consultants and the...