257. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 343 of 26 November 2025, the date on which she expects the outputs from the National Survey of the Experience of Home Support Workers and Nursing Home Healthcare Assistants to be collated; the timeline for completion of the final review of the Strategic Workforce Advisory Group on Home Carers and Nursing Home Health Care Assi…
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258. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the planned review into baby and maternal deaths; if this review has begun; if not, if it will begin before the end of 2025; the timeline for competition of the review; the role that experts in the area and parent groups will have in this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68317/25]
259. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the 52 recommendations from the seven completed reviews into the care provided to women and their infants in Portiuncula Maternity Service; the timeline being worked towards for implementing these recommendations in full; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68318/25]
260. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of all five ongoing reviews into the care provided to women and their infants in Portiuncula Maternity Service; if any have been completed; the timeline for completion of each review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68319/25]
641. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if private practice will take place in the new HSE surgical hubs; if private work has been conducted in the South Dublin Surgical Hub since it opened in February; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68031/25]
642. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to Early Onset Parkinson's Disease in Ireland's call for community-based exercise supports (details supplied); if she has any plans to fund these measures; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68032/25]
690. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will reverse the proposed changes to phased dispensing under the new community pharmacy agreement, which are due to come into operation on 1 January 2026; if her Department or the HSE assessed the impact of these changes on vulnerable patients to safely manage their medications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68087/25]
691. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will suspend implementation of the proposed changes to phased dispensing under the new community pharmacy agreement pending full consultation with front-line clinicians; if she will undertake a risk impact assessment, specifically examining effects on vulnerable groups; if she will commit to co-designing revised criteria for phased dispensing with GPs, pha…
692. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if funding will be provided for an updated neurosurgical robot used in deep brain stimulation surgery (details supplied); if an immediate decision will be made given the urgent need for additional capacity; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [68090/25]
519. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her views on a new restriction on interviews in the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (details supplied); if she will engage with the RCSI regarding this restriction and its implications; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66958/25]
520. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if consideration is being given to expanding access to a peanut oral immunotherapy drug for children with nut allergies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66960/25]
521. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a white paper by an organisation (details supplied); her views on each of the five actions identified by the committee; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66961/25]
522. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of radiography clinical practice tutor posts, by site, in tabular form. [66962/25]
523. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her plans to increase the number of radiography clinical practice tutor posts; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66963/25]
524. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if consideration has been given to establishing a scheme of financial reimbursement for women suffering with endometriosis who had to pay for previous treatment that was not offered by the State; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66964/25]
338. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason the National Ambulance Service is utilising private ambulance providers for patient transfers instead of offering staff within the intermediate care service overtime; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66621/25]
339. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the status of deliberations of the National Vaginal Mesh Implant Oversight Group's report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66622/25]
340. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to address infrastructure constraints in Cork University Hospital's rheumatology department (details supplied); if so, the timeline for same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66623/25]
341. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 1707, 1708, 1709 and 1710 of 4 November 2025, if healthcare providers must indicate on prescriptions that they are for the management of the symptoms of menopause such that pharmacists may submit claims for those prescriptions under the free HRT scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66624/25]
342. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to clarify if a definition in the Health Insurance (Amendment) and Health (Provision of Menopause Products) Act 2024 excludes a group from the free HRT scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66625/25]
343. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 211 of 22 October 2025, to confirm if the strategic workforce implementation group has been stood down; if a new strategic workforce advisory group has been established to work on a new report for the next phase of reform; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [66626/25]
849. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the process for service users applying to both the PRSI wig grant and the HSE grant wig allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65474/25]
850. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the timeline on the establishment of a national genomic medicine centre to process genetic tests nationally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65478/25]
851. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the number of clinical practice tutors for radiography students have increased in line with the increase in university places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65481/25]
852. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the measures in place to ensure that clinical practice tutors for radiography students are supported in their role; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [65482/25]