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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...

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...

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%,...

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

Pádraig Rice: One report states that one in four people waited longer than recommended for an appointment at these urgent clinics. I would like to share with the Minister the experiences of two women from north Dublin. They had to wait for in excess of the two-week period to be seen by the matters symptomatic breast clinic. In February, one woman was referred by GP due to the presence of two lumps in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Strategies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 54. To ask the Minister for Health the reason the new sexual health strategy has still not been published; the definitive timeline for its approval by Government and subsequent publication; if the strategy is still at design stage, as was the case in May of this year; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34816/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 75. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to introducing salaried GPs, employed directly by the HSE; the status of the Programme for Government commitment to ‘explore the recruitment of HSE employed GPs’; the timeline she is working towards in progressing this commitment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34814/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 284. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality further to Parliamentary Question No. 487 of 27 May 2025, to provide details of the outsourced visa service provider mentioned; the total amount paid to this provider; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35058/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Policies (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 329. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the Sláintecare recommendation to remove private care from public hospitals on a phased basis; the timeline now being worked towards to implement this recommendation; the steps that have been taken to progress the matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35055/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 330. To ask the Minister for Health the specific funding allocated to the implementation of Sláintecare; if a ring-fenced budget has been provided to implement ‘Path to Universal Healthcare: Sláintecare and Programme for Government 2025+’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35056/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 331. To ask the Minister for Health if she will commit to producing an updated series of costings for Sláintecare; if her Department has carried out work to revise the costings originally provided for in appendix three of the 2017 Sláintecare report produced by the Committee on the Future of Healthcare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35057/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Inspections (26 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 332. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that have been taken to address the serious issues identified in safety audits at Cork University Hospital (details supplied); if HIQA or the Health and Safety Authority are actively monitoring works to ensure that the hospital becomes compliant; if any regulatory enforcement action has been taken against the hospital; and if she will make a...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The purpose of the meeting is to consider the following Revised Estimate for 2025: Vote 38 - Department of Health, including the agencies funded by the Department. I welcome the Minister for Health, Deputy Jennifer Carroll MacNeill, and the Ministers of State, Deputies Mary Butler, Kieran O'Donnell and Jennifer Murnane O'Connor. The Ministers are accompanied by officials from the...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Pádraig Rice: I thank the Minister. There is a lot to consider there. I also thank her for the invitation to the briefing on the productivity dashboard. For members' benefit, we have arranged a briefing next Tuesday on the HR Bill. My intention is to do both together. We will take the briefings on both issues at the same time. I now open the discussion to members. As in previous meetings, we will...