Results 1-20 of 372 for speaker:Pádraig Rice

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 256. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of same-sex marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25024/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Data (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 257. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of marriages registered in the State in each of the years since 2015, by year, in tabular form. [25025/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 333. To ask the Minister for Health the reason she will not extend the special scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long Covid; if she will replace this scheme with a long-term occupational illness scheme; the supports she will put in place for those who are on the special scheme, following its conclusion on 30 June 2025; and if she will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (15 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 334. To ask the Minister for Health with regard to the new nicotine inhaling products Bill, her plans in respect of flavours; if consideration has been given to people with allergies (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [25052/25]

Driving Test Wait Times: Statements (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: The waiting time for the driving test needs to be treated like the emergency it is. The situation is getting worse, not better. As of April, the average wait time for the Wilton driving test centre in Cork was 35 weeks. In March, the relevant figure was 31 weeks. For the test centre in Mallow, the average wait time is 36 weeks, which is nine months. These are not just numbers. They...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: Next week marks the tenth anniversary of the momentous marriage equality referendum, which was a landmark moment in our social and political history. Today, ILGA-Europe published its report ranking European countries on LGBT human rights and policy protections. Ireland was ranked 14th on that list, which is mid-ranking. There are significant gaps in access to trans healthcare, gaps around...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 106. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if he will request his Department to investigate this matter to ensure that all inspections are fulfilling their legal obligations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24714/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 175. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth further to Parliamentary Question No. 1897 of 29 April 2025, when the review to the provision of core funding scheme will take place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24743/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 199. To ask the Minister for Health to provide further details in respect of the role and responsibilities of the new HSCP regional integration development leads in each HSE health region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24701/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 200. To ask the Minister for Health if she will direct Children’s Health Ireland to carry out a retrospective communication campaign to formally notify all families of children and young people who have ever received MAGEC rod implants of a field safety notice (FSN) issued by a manufacturer in December 2021, including those patients whose rods have been removed or who have aged out of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 203. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland obtained explicit, informed consent from each family prior to a clinical decision being made to leave MAGEC rods in place to fuse in situ; if this consent process included the provision of written information outlining the known increased risks of adverse events associated with prolonged implantation beyond two years as...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 204. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of MAGEC rods left to fuse in situ beyond two years in patients under the care of Children’s Health Ireland (CHI), contrary to the manufacturer’s instructions for use, was treated as off-label use under EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) 2017/745; if CHI ensured that a documented clinical justification was made; if families...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 205. To ask the Minister for Health if any cases involving the off-label use of MAGEC rods were reviewed by clinical governance structures, ethics committees, or hospital risk management teams within Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) (details supplied); if not, if she will now require CHI to carry out a retrospective audit of these cases to ensure regulatory and ethical compliance; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 206. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) routinely monitors blood levels of titanium, cobalt, and chromium in patients with MAGEC rods left to fuse in situ, in light of CHI's own findings (details supplied); if she will publish CHI's clinical policy for the follow-up and monitoring of patients who have aged out of paediatric care with MAGEC rods still in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 207. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vigilance reports or device-related incident notifications which have been submitted by Children’s Health Ireland (CHI) or the HSE to the Health Products Regulatory Authority in relation to MAGEC rods since the implementation of EU Medical Devices Regulation (MDR) 2017/745; if she will publish a breakdown of the nature of adverse events...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 201. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a detailed breakdown of the total number of children and young people in Ireland who have received MAGEC rod implants, in tabular form; the number that currently have MAGEC rods left to fuse in situ; and the number that have aged out of paediatric care with MAGEC rods still in place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24703/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 202. To ask the Minister for Health if she will publish the clinical rationale for the approach of leaving MAGEC rod implants in situ beyond the two-year implantation period recommended by the manufacturer in the December 2021 field safety notice (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24704/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 208. To ask the Minister for Health the reason MAGEC rods remain unapproved for general use in Ireland and are only accessible under compassionate grounds; if she will publish the clinical and regulatory rationale for this continued restriction, including any safety concerns identified by the Health Products Regulatory Authority or other regulatory bodies; the steps being taken to assess the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 209. To ask the Minister for Health if Children’s Health Ireland and associated paediatric spinal services record and report deaths of children and young people following scoliosis surgery using internationally recognised postoperative timeframes, including 30-day and 90-day mortality and in-hospital death; if she will publish all available data on postoperative mortality following...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (14 May 2025)

Pádraig Rice: 212. To ask the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an all-island defibrillator registry (details supplied); if so, the timeline for same; the engagement she has had with her counterparts in Northern Ireland in respect of this project;; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24720/25]