Results 81-100 of 270 for speaker:Duncan Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the incident in southern Lebanon where Irish peacekeepers came under fire from the Israel Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29866/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: This question is on the shots fired at our peacekeeping soldiers in Lebanon. Will the Tánaiste provide a comment on this?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Tánaiste and I welcome the swift and stern diplomatic response we had to this incident through the United Nations. As the Tánaiste has said, this is a pattern of behaviour. There is no sense this pattern will stop. We are lucky there were no injuries or loss of life but if, God forbid, we see further instances such as this or an escalation, what is open to us as a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: I am disappointed in how the heads of the Bill have been presented. I think there is support for 80% or 90% of what needs to be achieved in terms of our national security, or we could at least reach accommodations, such as on the extraction of our citizens from war zones. The Tánaiste will launch the national maritime strategy today, which I welcome and is much needed. There is an...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: I apologise for being delayed. I was asking defence questions in the Dáil before coming to the committee. I have a couple of questions I will put first to Dr. Devine. She finished her opening statement by saying that arguably the Government has no legal right to destroy the triple lock. If the Government Bill goes through more or less unamended or in its presented form, how likely is...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: The first is to Dr. Devine and then to the panel for the last question. Actually, I have one more for Dr. Devine. I ask her to expand on the relationship between the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the removal of the triple lock. I am interested in that point and I did not quite get what the relationship was.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: It does.

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: How does that relate to the prohibition of nuclear weapons?

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: I do not believe that is very helpful for this debate. Like Dr. Devine and the other panellists, I vehemently want to keep the triple lock. In the context of conflating something like the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, I cannot see any circumstance where we would resile from our commitment to abolish nuclear weapons or abolish them from the planet. It is almost stronger than...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: May I make raise a point of order arising from what Senator Kyne has said? It is important for this and future discussions. The Senator said he is not aware of anyone who is in favour of Ireland joining NATO. The Minister of State, Deputy Richmond, has stated publicly his personal opinion that he would be in favour of joining NATO. That is important because he is a senior member of the...

Committee on Defence and National Security: General Scheme of the Defence (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (Resumed) (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: No. I just think that is important.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline any plans he has to improve pay and conditions for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31432/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: In the programme for Government, there is a commitment to publishing a national policy on adult safeguarding in the health and social care sector. The Taoiseach states a considerable amount of work has been done. Given the revelations in "RTÉ Investigates" about our older and more vulnerable residents in nursing homes, can we please have a debate this Thursday on the issue, when the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Air Navigation Orders (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a US military flyover will be permitted during the NFL game in September of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the pupil enrolment and waiting list figures for a school (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the provision of a new primary school for Rush; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children living on the Donabate peninsula that access primary and secondary schools outside the Donabate area; to include details of the schools and to confirm the number of children who were unable to secure school places locally over the last three years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29841/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the delivery of a new school (details supplied) on the previously purchased site on Fosterstown lands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 803. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all new fire stations opened in the past eight years, by location, excluding renovations to existing fire stations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29582/25]