537. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the reason the records of the Departmental Council of the Department of Posts and Telegraphs over the period November 1981 to December 1983 dealing with the transfer of 10,000 civil servants from that Department to An Post are not available under the Freedom of Information Act 2014. [54655/25]
554. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport the details of all funding and grant opportunities available to girls school age sports teams; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55429/25]
657. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will commission and publish research into legal gender recognition for those aged under 16 years-of-age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54773/25]
658. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will establish a process by which Irish citizens born in Northern Ireland (NI) can access Irish gender recognition; if he will work with the United Kingdom (UK) and NI authorities to reinstate Ireland on the list of approved countries for recognising foreign gender recognition in the UK; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54774/25]
717. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration to confirm the location of the facility where the certificates of naturalisation provided to new citizens are printed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55384/25]
817. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if incremental credit will be provided to newly appointed radiation therapists in the HSE for previous relevant experience gained in the private sector or as an agency worker in a public hospital (details supplied); the reason radiation therapists are not currently included in the categories of staff in which incremental credit may be granted for previous relevan…
866. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); to outline in detail the procedures undertaken by her Department for medical evacuations from Gaza; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54953/25]
912. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the National Rare Disease Strategy; the status of implementation of each of its recommendations respectively; the timeline for establishing an Implementation Oversight Group and the development of an implementation plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55473/25]
281. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53139/25]
332. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will commit to introducing legal recognition for those who identify as non-binary, including an ‘X’ marker option on passports; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53797/25]
382. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Social Protection if he will enact the recommendations from the 2018 review of the Gender Recognition Act 2015 and the former Minister’s report in response to that review, which set out proposals to address several recommendations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53796/25]
402. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration the current status of an application by a person (details supplied); the expected timeline for a decision to be completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53144/25]
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726. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if consideration has been given to recognising other proof of residence for fee status classification; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53145/25]
79. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps she is taking to address the serious deficits in staffing and equipment in public radiation therapy services; if she will instruct the HSE to offer all radiation therapy graduates employment; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52861/25]
100. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a 30% rise in the incidence of tuberculosis in the past year; if she will provide an update on the implementation of ‘Striving to End Tuberculosis: A strategy for Ireland 2024-2030’; if she will publish an implementation plan and provide the necessary funding; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52409/25]
105. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health for an update on the development of a new model of care for transgender healthcare services; the current timeframe for competition of this work; if she will commit to increasing the funding provided to the development of this new model in budget 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52410/25]
192. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her views on the advertising of zero-alcohol products in locations where alcohol advertising is prohibited under the Public Health (Alcohol) Act 2018 (details supplied); her views on whether such advertising is a breach of the 2018 Act; if she will take steps to address this matter; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52411/25]
438. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 721 of 27 May 2025, the status of the HSE’s review of the physician associate grade; if she will publish the terms of reference for this review; the date at which she expects this review to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52748/25]
439. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will allocate funding in budget 2026 for post-acute inpatient neurorehabilitation beds in the south west, in line with the programme for Government commitment to develop more specialist inpatient neurorehabilitation beds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52749/25]
440. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 610 of 23 September 2025, the conditions included in the free hormone replacement therapy scheme under ‘medically induced menopause’; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52750/25]
441. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if she will engage with the relevant authorities regarding facilitation of these clinical placements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52751/25]
442. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason for the discrepancy between her Department’s stated position with respect to medical evacuations of paediatric patients (details supplied); if the position has changed since 2024; if all children have been evacuated via Egypt; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52752/25]
443. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the elective hospital for Cork; if she expects planning permission to be sought in 2026; and if she will give a commitment that, subject to planning approval, construction will begin in 2027 and the hospital will become operational in 2030, as set out in the Sláintecare 2025+ plan; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52754/25]
444. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of medical evacuations of Palestinian children since 2023, by year and location of evacuation. [52777/25]
197. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she has received a business case from a group (details supplied); the status of her Department’s consideration of same; if she has engaged with the group concerned since receiving its business case; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52393/25]