698. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of four breast care nurse posts in Cork University Hospital; if they were previously advertised and subsequently removed; and if so, the reason. [71427/26]
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465. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if approval has been granted to Cork University Hospital to recruit the staff required to operationalise 21 additional acute inpatient beds, due to be delivered by year end. [67774/26]
466. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the status of the 21 in-patient beds due to be delivered in Cork University Hospital this year; the timeline for opening these beds; and the total additional staff requirement to operationalise all 21 beds, by grade. [67773/26]
467. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of days in which CT scanners in Cork University Hospital were closed or capacity was restricted due to staff shortages in 2026. [67771/26]
468. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of CT scan machines in Cork University Hospital. [67769/26]
469. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of radiographers employed in Cork University Hospital in each of the years from 2020 to date in 2026. [67763/26]
502. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the present governance structure for the management of projects, construction works and changes to building infrastructure within the management structure of Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54388/26]
503. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the written, documented policy governing the management of projects, construction works and building alterations at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, including an organogram, setting out clearly defined roles and responsibilities for each post identified; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54389/26]
504. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the post within Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, other than the hospital manager, which holds lead responsibility for projects, construction works and building alterations; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54390/26]
505. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the basis on which the current governance structure for the management of projects, construction works and building alterations at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, is considered fit for purpose; if this structure was informed by any external review, audit or report benchmarked against best practice; if so, if she will provide same; and if she will make a statem…
506. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she will provide the job descriptions of any post at Connolly Hospital, Blanchardstown, identified as holding responsibility for projects, construction works or building alterations, as evidence of an embedded governance structure and clear lines of accountability; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54392/26]
241. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she has investigated whether public only consultants in the pathology lab in St. Vincent's University Hospital are engaged in private work on site; if the laboratory has any service level agreements in place with private facilities (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [52172/26]
861. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health to provide further details regarding a review being conducted by the HSE to ensure compliance with the terms of the public only consultant contract (details supplied); the timeline for competition of this review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51813/26]
767. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if the termination of a service level agreement will lead to the discontinuation of private work across all laboratory services in University Hospital Galway (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48902/26]
768. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the reason University Hospital Galway did not put alternative arrangements in place to ensure that it adhered to the terms of the public only consultant contract in its laboratories ahead of January 2026; if any preparatory work was carried out, given that management is expecting public only consultants to breach their contracts until the end of September; and if…
529. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if an addendum to HSE HR Circular 008/2026 will be issued to ensure that consultants on the public only consultant contract are not rostered for on-call duties in relation to private patients (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [46726/26]
530. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she is investigating weekend consultant rostering arrangements and the gifting of fees to consultants on public only consultant contracts (POCC) for delivering the babies of private patients in the Rotunda Maternity Hospital, further to media reports (details supplied); the steps she is taking to address this breach of the POCC; and if she will make a statemen…
348. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 2517 of 13 January 2026, the number of consultants on a public-only contract (details supplied) in hospitals within Children’s Health Ireland in each of the years from 2014 to 2025, by speciality and site, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38547/26]
295. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the number of nurses registered as competent to deliver chemotherapy in each hospital delivering chemotherapy in each of the years 2020 to 2025, in tabular form. [38249/26]
3214. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health if she is aware of a shortfall in the number of available training placements for radiography; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26498/26]
3215. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the current number of WTE radiologists in each of the relevant hospitals in the HSE Dublin and north-east region; the optimum staffing allocation of WTE radiologists; the way in which staffing levels compare to international standards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26499/26]
3216. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the current number of WTE radiologists in each of the relevant hospitals in the HSE Dublin and midlands region; the optimum staffing allocation of WTE radiologists; the way in which staffing levels compare to international standards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26500/26]
3217. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the current number of WTE radiologists in each of the relevant hospitals in the HSE Dublin and south- east region; the optimum staffing allocation of WTE radiologists; the way in which the staffing levels compare to international standards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26501/26]
3218. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the current number of WTE radiologists in each of the relevant hospitals in the HSE mid- west region; the optimum staffing allocation of WTE radiologists; the way in which staffing levels compare to international standards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26502/26]
3219. Deputy Pádraig Rice asked the Minister for Health the current number of WTE radiologists in each of the relevant hospitals in the HSE south-west region; the optimum staffing allocation of WTE radiologists; the way in which staffing levels compare to international standards; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [26503/26]