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]
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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]
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]
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equipment replacement programme (details supplied); if she will commit to doing so to address the critically outdated linear accelerators in many of the State’s public cancer treatment facilities; and if she will make a statement on the matter.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]
3007. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide details on how often KPI data from the National Cancer Control Programme online portal is updated; its intended use; who the KPI data is shared with; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42794/25]
3077. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been brought to a report (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address the five key challenges identified; if she will implement the report’s recommendations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43111/25]
526. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will request that Children’s Health Ireland publishes the 2021 oncology risk assessment (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [40268/25]
976. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the date on which she plans to commence the evaluation of the current National Cancer Strategy; if this review will be carried out by her Department, the HSE or another body; if she will engage with key stakeholders as part of this process; if a new National Cancer Strategy will be published by the end of 2026; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [394…
2. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to the failure of a number of symptomatic breast disease clinics to see newly referred patients within ten working days (details supplied); the steps being taken to ensure that these clinics meet their targets; if the required resources will be allocated to these clinics to ensure there is adequate staffing; to provide an update on t…
933. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to outline the status of each cancer-related capital programme, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32776/25]
934. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to specify which cancer-related capital programmes reached appraisal stage and have now lapsed in each of the years 2020 to 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32777/25]
935. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to outline the status of each of the promised dedicated cancer units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32778/25]
230. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her views on the HSE’s growing reliance on outsourcing radiotherapy services to private providers; the steps she is taking to reverse this trend; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24089/25]
2235. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the total number of BowelScreen invitations issued, by county, in 2024; the corresponding number of people, per county, who returned a completed faecal immunochemical test in 2024, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19830/25]
2275. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will commit to introducing a standardised breast density notification protocol as part of the BreastCheck program; the status of the National Screening Advisory Committee’s review of this proposal; the date at which she expects the Committee to conclude its work and present a recommendation in this regard; and if she will make a statement on the matter. […
283. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the progress on implementation of the radiation therapy advanced practice pilot programme; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15917/25]
284. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of people currently waiting to attend each radiation oncology unit in Ireland, by waiting time period, in tabular form (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15918/25]
285. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the steps that need to be finalised to fund clinical practice tutors for radiation therapists to expand the number of training places for radiation therapy at Trinity College Dublin and University College Cork; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15919/25]
286. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the expected number of radiation therapy graduates in 2025; the number of relevant posts available for such graduates within the hospital setting upon graduation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15920/25]
287. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the last time the staffing model for radiation therapists was updated; if there are plans to review the current staffing model; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15921/25]
288. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the date at which the National Cancer Strategy 2024 implementation report will be made public; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15922/25]
289. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the funding provided to the lymphoedema model of care to date; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15923/25]
290. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health her plans to expand community lymphoedema and lipoedema services in cancer centres of excellence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [15924/25]