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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1043. To ask the Minister for Health the number of complaints Children’s Health Ireland received in 2024; the response time for complaints; the percentage of complaints which required additional time beyond 30 days; if all complaints unaddressed beyond 30 days were given updates every 20 working days until the process had concluded; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23524/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1044. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland has a mechanism for measuring the effectiveness of its complaints process; if they publish complaint related data; and if so, to provide a copy. [23525/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Complaints Procedures (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1045. To ask the Minister for Health the number of months Children’s Health Ireland has been operating an auto response email from its complaints office (details supplied). [23526/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1046. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if a number of required positions have been filled in Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service; and the number that remain vacant, in tabular form (details supplied). [23527/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1047. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm the number of spina bifida multidisciplinary team clinics held in Temple Street in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; the number at which a consultant spinal surgeon was present; and the number at which a consultant urologist was present. [23528/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1048. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if urological care at Temple Street’s spina bifida multidisciplinary team service is urology consultant led or delivered by a non-consultant hospital doctor; if patients who attend this clinic are discussed at urology rounds or multidisciplinary team discussion with a consultant urologist present; to outline the retention procedure for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1049. To ask the Minister for Health to confirm if it is Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) policy to provide food to all mothers in the postpartum period or only those who breastfeed or pump breast milk for feeding; to confirm if all mothers who arrive in CHI sites by ambulance from maternity hospitals with infants requiring incubator care, high dependency unit care or intensive care are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1142. To ask the Minister for Health if the number of amputees in Ireland is collated in a national database; if not, the reason; if she plans to establish a database of amputees to inform and improve service provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24084/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1143. To ask the Minister for Health if all amputees are guaranteed prosthetics following amputation surgery; the process for obtaining prosthetics following surgery; the funding and supports available to obtain more advanced prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24085/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (13 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 1144. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Improvement Programme completed its review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services in 2024; if so, whether this review has been published; the actions that have been taken to improve provision of prosthetics; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24086/25]

Parental Choice in Education: Motion [Private Members] (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank Deputy Cummins for her work on the motion and also over many years on this issue and wider education issues. The pace of change is far too slow. We heard during the week in the audiovisual room from a parent who said, “I wonder if I am doing this for my children or my grandchildren.” That is how frustrated parents are about the pace of change. Across County Cork,...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I also congratulate the students on winning the debating championship. I welcome the emerging preferred route for the Cork Luas, but major questions remain. We do not know how much the Government intends to invest in this crucial project. We do not know if a second north-south route is planned. Crucially, we do not know when the Cork Luas will open. This project cannot be left like...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Same-sex Marriage (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 410. To ask the Minister for Health the number of same sex marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [22998/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Register Office (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 411. To ask the Minister for Health the number of marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [22999/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Food Labelling (8 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 453. To ask the Minister for Health her views on the cross-Government working group that was established in 2022, under the aegis of her Department, to discuss EU regulation on the provision of food information to consumers; her views on the conclusions of this working group as they relate to Irish language packaging and food labelling in Ireland; if she will consider policy measures, up to...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Broadband Plan (7 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 35. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the area may be reconsidered to be included in the State intervention area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety (7 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 48. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if consideration has been given to increasing funding allocations in the future for road safety initiatives, such as traffic calming measures, to local authorities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22746/25]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (7 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of a pedestrian bridge connecting Tramore Valley Park to Ballyphehane in Cork, including timelines for the delivery of this project; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22178/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 192. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her views on matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if her Department is considering increasing the number of sessions teachers are provided with interpreters in certain circumstances as part of the ‘Say Yes to Languages’ programme; the steps her Department is taking to promote inclusion for teachers; and if she...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (7 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 508. To ask the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing a new implementation plan for Sláintecare; the period this plan will cover; if it will contain detailed costings; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [22460/25]