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Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2570. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 254 of 9 July 2025, if her Department has concluded its review of the 2017 Dickson Report regarding Paediatric Urology; if it has received the initial assurances and additional information sought from the HSE; if she will publish the report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46791/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2571. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if a medication for post-excision management of endometriosis (details supplied) will be added to the drug payment scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46792/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2572. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will ensure that the importance of long-term medication access for women recovering from severe endometriosis is recognised; if she will prioritise investment in multidisciplinary care pathways to reduce the long-term cost burden on the health system by preventing repeat surgeries as a result of endometriosis; and if she will make a statement on the matte…
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2573. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to PQ No. 379 of 10 April 2025, to confirm if the four new allergy service beds that will be opened in the new National Children’s Hospital represents a reduction in the number of beds currently available to children with allergy based conditions (details supplied); the number available to children with allergy based conditions across public hospitals at…
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2574. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to list the service providers used by the HSE and Section 28 hospitals to store patient data; if, in each case, this data is being stored in this jurisdiction or on international servers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46795/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2575. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to PQ no. 2679 of 29 July 2025, the status of the HSE’s consideration of the recommendation of the Medicines Management Programme (MMP) to reclassify high-protein ONS to List B; if her attention has been brought to the rebuttal of the MMP’s interpretation of ONS cost data by experts in clinical nutrition (details supplied); if she will meet with clinical…
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2576. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason the external retrospective review of children who may have undergone unnecessary hip surgeries has been delayed; if the HSE is still committed to a six month timeframe for the process; the status of the shortlisting and recruitment process for the independent panel; to confirm that the panel will be convened in September; and if she will make a statem…
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2577. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason no correspondence related to the external retrospective review of children who may have undergone unnecessary hip surgeries have been issued to families; if correspondence will be issued to families as a matter of urgency outlining the status of the review and the next steps; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46798/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2578. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to outline the HSE’s new rules surrounding travel and subsistence allowances; to detail the changes that have taken place; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46799/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2579. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the Programme for Government commitment to review the drugs reimbursement process; if work has commenced on advancing this commitment; the timeline she is working towards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46800/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2638. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of people who were referred for a colonoscopy under BowelScreen; and the number of people offered a colonoscopy appointment within the recommended 28 days under BowelScreen in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to-date in 2025, in tabular form. [47099/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2639. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to ensure nicotine pouches cannot be legally sold to children under 18 years of age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47100/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 8 Sep 2025 · to Health
2640. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health when a draft of the Public Health (Nicotine Inhaling Products) Bill will be published; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47101/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2671. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will provide an update on the progress of each individual action outlined in the 2022 HSE position paper on the prevention of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41310/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2672. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of individuals diagnosed with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder in each of the past ten years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41311/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2673. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the specific criteria used for the diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder conditions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41312/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2674. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the aftercare supports that are available to an individual with a diagnosis of foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41313/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2675. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the mandatory required training that all HSE clinicians must undertake in order to support patients living with foetal alcohol spectrum disorder; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41314/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2676. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of babies who had facial dysmorphia associated with foetal alcohol syndrome recorded at birth in each of the past ten years, in tabular form (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [41315/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2679. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the Medicines Management Programme’s proposed reclassification of high protein (HP) oral nutrition supplements to list B will be suspended to allow the scientific data to be properly evaluated; if she is aware of thejoint position statement detailing the clinical, ethical, and economic concerns associated with this proposal endorsed by over500 healthcare prof…
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2680. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will request that the Medicines Management Programme begins formal engagement with the Irish Society for Clinical Nutrition and Metabolism, the Irish Nutrition and Dietetic Institute and academic nutrition leaders to revise guidance on high-protein (HP) ONS products in line with international expert consensus; and if she will make a statement on the matte…
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2874. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapy posts offered to graduates in each of the past five years; the percentage that were full-time 1.0 WTE and the percentage that were below 1.0 WTE, in tabular form. [42502/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2882. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to the exclusion of transgender women from the free HRT scheme (details supplied); if she will re-examine the guidance issued to pharmacies to ensure that transgender women are not excluded from the scheme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42566/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2883. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if health warning labels on alcoholic drinks will be introduced as planned in May 2026; her views on proposals to delay this public health measure; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42567/25]
Pádraig Rice Written 29 Jul 2025 · to Health
2884. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the projects she intends to spend the €9.25 billion available to her Department under the revised national development plan; to outline the allocations she intends to make to each project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42568/25]