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Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 861. To ask the Minister for Health the reasons the four recommendations from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2018 with respect to the development of primary care centres were not implemented (details supplied); if she remains committed to implementing these recommendations; if any progress has been made since mid-2025, at which point...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 866. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the minimum scope of services that constitutes a primary care centre has still not been defined; if she will commit to implementing recommendation 19.3 from the Comptroller and Auditor General’s Report on the Accounts of the Public Services 2024 (details supplied); the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 862. To ask the Minister for Health if she will update the priority ranking of locations/communities for development of primary care centres (PCCs), or expansion of existing PCCs, in view of the Comptroller and Auditor General’s finding that the current ranking ‘lacks sound quantification and transparency’; the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 863. To ask the Minister for Health of the €1.56 billion allocation for capital expenditure for 2026, the amount apportioned to the development of primary care centres (PCCs); to list the PCCs to be developed under this allocation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57372/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 864. To ask the Minister for Health if she will conduct a formal cost effectiveness review of primary care centres delivery methods (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57373/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres (21 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 865. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the review of the utilisation of primary care centres has still not been completed, despite being included in the 2019 Sláintecare action plan; the status of that review; the timeline for completion of this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57374/25]

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I am deeply concerned about the scale of the human rights abuses of members of the Traveller community. It is worth taking a moment to reflect on those comments from Professor Michael O'Flaherty, the Commissioner for Human Rights with the Council of Europe who said: We must confront the injustices experienced by Roma and Travellers, the racism and discrimination that we allow to persist on...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Absolutely. I also have a key concern around the implementation of the strategy and I have raised this with the Department of equality. Across a whole broad range of measures, the State suffers from implementation deficit disorder in implementing many of the great strategies we have. We have some brilliant glossy documents for strategies but many of them we have failed to implement. We...

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Would IHREC agree with that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I will move on to housing. Not only are Travellers denied culturally appropriate accommodation, they are often living in conditions not fit for human habitation, which is deeply concerning. A previous submission from FLAC called for a constitutional right to housing. Is this something that IHREC supports?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Should that include specifically the right to cultural appropriate accommodation for Travellers? What is the IHREC position on that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: In addition, the Traveller accommodation expert review has called for an overhaul of the 1998 traveller accommodation Act because of its failures in terms of Traveller accommodation. Would the commission support that?

Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community: Human Rights and International Standards for Traveller and Roma Communities: Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: It is always important to take a intersectional approach to human rights, in particular taking account of concerns around the rights of Travellers with disabilities, LGBT Travellers and others. I have previously worked in LGBT human rights and I had concerns around IHREC's previous strategy statement for the period 2022 to 2024, which under the priority in the previous strategy talked about...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (16 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 378. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 650 of 23 September 2025, the reason the expected completion date for the HSE Service Improvement Programme’s review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services has been postponed (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56293/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Apologies have been received from Deputy Cullinane and Senator Costello. I express my sympathy to Senator Costello on the passing of her father. Deputy Buckley will substitute for Deputy Cullinane and Senator Rabbitte will substitute for Senator Costello. I remind members of the constitutional requirement that members must be physically present within the confines of Leinster House...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Rare Diseases: Discussion (15 Oct 2025)

Pádraig Rice: We are over time so we might just wrap up.