169. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she intends to introduce advanced practice posts for medical scientists; the work carried out to date to progress this role under the HSCP Advanced Practice Framework; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50612/25]
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170. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she intends to establish a national biobank office and introduce primary biobanking legislation, as recommended by the Irish Health Research Forum in 2023; if so, the timeline she is working towards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50613/25]
171. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the national research ethics bill, approved by Government in 2019; to expand on the comment “work is ongoing”, as per the Autumn Legislative Programme; if her attention has been brought to the views of a representative organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50614/25]
172. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide further details as to her instruction to her officials to engage with concerns related to the exclusion of transgender people from the free HRT scheme (details supplied); the groups or bodies her officials are engaging with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50615/25]
187. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of posts in the HSE’s supra-regional endometriosis centre operated by Cork University Maternity Hospital, by grade; the number that are filled; the number that are vacant; and the status of these vacant posts, in tabular form. [50731/25]
188. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of posts in the HSE’s supra-regional endometriosis centre operated by Tallaght University Hospital, by grade; the number that are filled; the number that are vacant; and the status of these vacant posts, in tabular form. [50732/25]
609. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the costing provided for in a document included hormone replacement therapy prescribed to transgender women (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49826/25]
610. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if a women prescribed hormone replacement therapy (HRT) for the treatment of a condition can avail of the free HRT scheme (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49827/25]
611. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her views on the apparently contradictory information produced by her Department in advance of the free hormone replacement therapy (HRT) scheme (details supplied); if pharmacists are expected to provide any clinical information to the HSE on patients availing of the scheme; if patients are required to provide any clinical information to pharmacists to avail of t…
612. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if a proposal will be considered by the expert advisory group established to guide the next suicide reduction strategy (detail supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [49854/25]
614. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason for outsourcing a contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider, given that the National Ambulance Service already operates a well-established and fully staffed intermediate care vehicle (ICV) service; the justification for this decision being taken without any meaningful consultation with staff…
615. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will immediately review the decision of the National Ambulance Service (NAS) to outsource the contract for non-emergency patient transport in the greater Dublin area to a private ambulance provider; if she will commit to strengthening and investing in NAS resources rather than diverting public funds into private services; if she will ensure that meaningful…
649. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to respond to matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); the reason CAR-T cell therapy treatment has not been approved for patients over the age of 26 in Ireland; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50097/25]
650. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1144 of 13 May 2025, the status of the HSE Service Improvement Programme’s review of the existing provision of limb prosthetic services, which was due to be completed by Q3 2025; if it has been completed; if not, the date on which it is expected to be completed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50100/25]
651. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the HSE Service Improvement Programme’s review of limb prosthetic services includes children’s provision; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50101/25]
652. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to respond to a campaign for reform in paediatric prosthetic provision (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address the issues identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50102/25]
674. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will put in place a permanent scheme of paid leave for eligible public health sector employees suffering from long covid; to replace the existing scheme which is due to expire on 31 December 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50335/25]
675. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reasons for the lack of progress in implementing the recommendations of the national radiation therapist review; the status of the implementation group; the number of times the group has met; if an implementation plan will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50341/25]
676. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her views on the growing spend on contracting out radiation therapy (RT) for public patients to private providers (details supplied); the engagements she has had with the HSE with regard to the outsourcing of RT services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50342/25]
677. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2920 of 29 July 2025, to provide further details regarding the major equipment replacement programme and expansion programme underway at St Luke's Radiation Oncology Network (details supplied); the timeline for completion of the replacement project for linear accelerators in St. Luke's, Rathgar; and if she will make a stateme…
679. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a proposal to establish a national radiotherapy equipment replacement programme (details supplied); if she will commit to doing so to address the critically outdated linear accelerators in many of the State’s public cancer treatment facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50354/25]
689. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 494 of 20 March 2025, the number of cases diagnosed in each of the years since 2018, by condition (details supplied); the number treated with Intersex genital mutilation (IGM); in cases in which IGM was deemed necessary, to provide an indication as to the reasoning; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50396/25]
690. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the incidence of intersex genital mutilation is reducing in Ireland; if so, to provide data to support this; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50397/25]
691. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the information provided to parents of intersex infants; the involvement, that intersex people have in informing and monitoring this information; if parents with intersex infants are being referred to an organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50398/25]
696. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the timeline she is working towards in publishing the draft heads of the Public Health (Tobacco Products and Nicotine Inhaling Products) (Amendment) Bill 2025; if she will commit to publication in advance of the Christmas recess; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [50424/25]