1011. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the funding provided to implement the National Maternity Strategy in Budget 2027; and to provide a detailed breakdown of this allocation. [74473/26]
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177. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she plans to begin implementation of the National Diabetes Strategy by providing funding to create a regional diabetes clinical lead post in each HSE health region. [67489/26]
178. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she intends to remove the specific criteria of 'insulin initiation from the start' that is preventing approximately 500 to 700 people with a clinical diagnosis of type 1 diabetes from accessing continuous glucose monitoring. [67488/26]
180. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to outline the process that will be used to initiate patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia on a treatment (details supplied); and to confirm if all neurologists currently treating patients with Friedreich’s Ataxia across Ireland will be authorised to prescribe this treatment from the commencement date. [67485/26]
543. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if implementation of the Diabetes Policy and Services Review: A strategy for Better Care Diabetes Strategy has been identified as a Ministerial priority within the HSE National Service Plan and Estimates process for 2027; if new funding will be provided in the upcoming budget to support the implementation of National Diabetes strategy; and if she will make a stat…
544. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps being taken to address staffing resource shortages in the HSE South West region, identified in the Diabetes Policy and Services Review: A strategy for Better Care Diabetes Strategy (details supplied); if additional funding will be made available for the new posts identified in the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48707/26]
725. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if Action 7 of the 2022 HSE Position Paper on FASD Prevention, which was due to be completed within three years of publication, has now been completed (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47101/26]
1018. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an update on the development of a successor to the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026; if she will hold a public consultation to inform its development; if so, the manner in which this public consultation will be held; if there will be an open call for submissions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45900/26]
1235. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 1268 of 28 April 2026, if the Women's Health Action Plan 2026-2027: Phase 3 will include plans to examine under 17’s access to contraception as outlined in the National Sexual Health Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37770/26]
1236. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the HIV Action Plan, committed to in the National Sexual Health Strategy 2025-2035; the work carried out to date; the timeline being worked towards for publication; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [37771/26]
3238. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the Review of Access to Cannabis for Medical Use, following the appointment of a chair; if the Review Group has held its first meeting [26569/26]
513. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if there are plans to roll out a school-based oral health promotion initiative to all primary schools (details supplied); if her Department is carrying out any work in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23519/26]
514. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will meet with an organisation regarding their oral health promotion initiatives (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23520/26]
1693. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to the publication of the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, to outline the proposed governance, funding flows and accountability arrangements for the regional structures within the HSE health regions; if the local drug and alcohol task forces will retain independent governance and decision-making authority over locally delivered programmes; and if…
1694. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health how funding will be allocated within the proposed regional structures under the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029; if deprivation, social exclusion and patterns of entrenched drug-related harm will be formally weighted alongside population in determining resource allocation; if she will publish the criteria to be used by HSE health regions in making fundin…
1695. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the specific measures that will be put in place to protect the independent, community-led role of local drug and alcohol task forces under the proposed regional governance arrangements in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18410/26]
1696. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if, under the proposed regional structures in the draft National Drugs Strategy 2026–2029, all public funding for community-based drug services, including local drug and alcohol task forces, will be pooled at HSE health region level; the safeguards that will be put in place to prevent dilution of funding to areas of high deprivation; and if she will make a state…
2089. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will use the opportunity of the forthcoming United Nations Commission on Population and Development (CPD) fifty-ninth session on 13 to 17 April 2026 to showcase Ireland's positive experience of reforming law and policy and expanding access to reproductive health and rights, including at events and discussions sponsored by Member States and international o…
368. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to address matters raised in correspondence (details supplied); if the guidance has been updated since 2004; if exempted premises are monitored to ensure staff safety; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10847/26]
1093. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide further details with respect to the establishment of 11 regional structures under the National Drugs Strategy; to clarify the governance, funding and accountability arrangements for these structures; if these new structures will replace or absorb existing local drug and alcohol task forces; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9812/26]
1094. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide further details with respect to the population-based planning that will be used for new National Drugs Strategy structures; the way in which deprivation and local need will be addressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9813/26]
1095. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the consultation that has taken place with local drug and alcohol task forces and communities ahead of the proposed regional structures under the National Drugs Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9814/26]
1096. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the way in which the independent, community-led nature, and preventative role, of local drug and alcohol task forces will be protected in the new proposed regional structures under the National Drugs Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9815/26]
1178. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide an itemised breakdown of allocations made towards combatting loneliness between 2019 and 2025, indicating which specific organisations and projects have been supported, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8606/26]
194. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 240 of 26 March 2025, to identify the recommendations which still need to be fully implemented in the National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026; the actions required to fully implement each of the outstanding recommendations, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [2814/26]