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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Expenditure (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1218. To ask the Minister for Health the annual value of the contract for the patient advocacy service; the number of staff that it supports; the annual funding for the service for each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; the number of persons supported in each year since 2019; the projected number for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55465/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1219. To ask the Minister for Health the number of resignations among nurses and midwives, respectively, for each hospital in 2021 and to date in 2022; the number who resigned in September and October 2022, respectively; the figures for the same months in 2021, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55466/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1220. To ask the Minister for Health the number of nurses and midwives’ positions, respectively, that remain unfilled for each hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55467/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1221. To ask the Minister for Health the number of unfilled consultant positions that currently remain unfilled for each hospital, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55468/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1223. To ask the Minister for Health the status of discussions on home births with relevant stakeholders, including GPs, as of November 2022 and as promised by him as part of a national policy in the context of the national maternity strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55493/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1224. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to ensure that the national maternity strategy offers birthing choices, including home births, irrespective of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55494/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1245. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE has completed transfer of its banking arrangements relating to employee payrolls at all locations from banks exiting the Republic of Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55637/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Staff (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1246. To ask the Minister for Health if bringing additional expertise for health and social care professionals, HSCPs, to his Department equates to a chief HSCP role on par with the chief nursing officer; if he will outline the details of the reporting relationship for the envisaged role within his Department; the resources that are being allocated to support the role; the engagement that he...

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Funding (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1320. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development if there is any assistance currently available for a community group (details supplied) in County Laois; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54246/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 12. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to implement a public transport security strategy; if he plans to include An Garda Síochána in such a strategy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55761/22]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: The issue of safety on our public transport system has arisen often lately. Has the Minister plans to implement a new public transport security strategy and will he include An Garda Síochána in any discussion on such a strategy? My view, which I will outline when I speak again, is that there has been an unhelpful stoking of the issue by some in politics, but the matter can be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: Some of the measures outlined by the Minister, such as CCTV and text alerts, are all well and good but what we need is increased staffing in the public transport operators. Over the years, we have made a virtue of having staffless rail stations. This has been a problem. If we had the traditional stationmasters as well as workers present on platforms, who have authority by virtue of being...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: The Minister and I are on the same page. I do not agree with having a separate transport police or the private outsourcing of security. I do not like the level of security on the Luas because it adds to the degree to which people feel unsafe. Rather than increasing security measures on public transport, I would rather see traditional staffing levels improved across our public transport...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the steps he is taking to reduce the waiting times at national car test, NCT, centres throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55762/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Services (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 57. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the way the decision to extend the contract of bus services (details supplied) by 12 months was reached, given the companies serial fines for missing service targets; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55760/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Licences (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 59. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any plans to extend the ten-year taxi vehicle licensing rule to 15 years, in view of the significant increase in the cost of used cars and the scarcity of used electric vehicles; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55759/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Costs (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he has any plans to consolidate public transport ticketing in one monthly ticket, such as the €49 monthly ticket scheme for all regional public transport in Germany, announced in November 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55763/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will order the preservation of the recently discovered souterrain at lands in Corballis, Donabate, as set out in section 8 (1) of the National Monuments Act 1930, especially given the writing on the walls within the souterrain, which may be ogham or futhark and is of historic importance; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 270. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she is considering changing the rules for fuel allowance in circumstances (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56069/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: The increase in tolls came as a bolt out of the blue for everyone, including Government, today. I am probably the only Deputy in this Chamber who does not have to go through a toll to get to Leinster House. I am looking at the M7, M8 and M9. We are all used to paying tolls. The M50 and the Dublin Port Tunnel are in my county. This is not about tolling as a revenue raiser. Nobody...