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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Update on Issues in Aviation Sector: Engagement with Mr. Willie Walsh (16 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: Absolutely. On airport charges, when it comes to the appropriate time the airlines and airports line up and have a row, a conclusion is reached and everyone moves on. Is that a sustainable way of coming up with charges when we are looking at long-term investment needs in Dublin Airport with regard to underground tunnels and new canopies along with the needs of Cork Airport, Shannon Airport...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (24 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if support is available for a young couple who have recently bought a rural cottage that requires some work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends extending the period for local authorities to purchase homes in which a tenant is in situ into the year to ensure that all purchases are completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58538/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will explain the reasoning as to the reason a person who is in receipt of partial capacity benefits, if recipients are on an invalidity-based payment rate they will not be entitled to the one-off payment of €500; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce a mechanism for frontline workers to register for their pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that persons should be afforded dental treatment and appliances by the dental hospital in accordance with function 4 (b) of its establishment order, irrespective of any assessment as suitable for treatment by undergraduate or postgraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction that all medical card holders be entitled to the entresto heart drug, regardless of their LVEF level, given that a person (details supplied) is finding purchasing the drug a financial burden due to their level not being below LVEF 35; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to approve the drug (details supplied); the criteria used to disapprove the drug; and his views on the lack of access to the drug in Ireland, despite its widespread use across Europe for persons with compromised immune systems. [58171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 770. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the situation that persons who are immunocompromised and who are prevented from ending the quarantine face, despite the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; if his Department records data as to the number of such persons who are affected; his plans to support such persons to resume entering congregated public spaces; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of Covid-19-related ICU admissions in each month to date in 2022, between medically immunosuppressed persons and persons whose immune systems are not interfered with by medication, and between persons who are fully vaccinated and unvaccinated. [58174/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of Covid-19-related deaths in each month to date in 2022, between medically immunosuppressed persons and persons whose immune systems are not interfered with by medication, and between persons who are fully vaccinated and unvaccinated. [58175/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: Our committee has had some high-profile meetings over the past two and a half years, particularly in respect of aviation, but we have never had the level of interest in an issue from the public or from other Members outside the committee that we have had in this meeting today. This goes to the heart of how important our bus services are to the daily experience of people in our city and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: We do not have up-to-date figures. We would have figures that they would be above €1 million per organisation. Would Ms Graham attest to that at this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: My next question was going to follow on from that. I wanted to ask if the fines issued this year are comparable with any other year. How much of an outlier has 2022 been and at what level are fines not enough? Is there anything above fines that-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: Yes, I was going to ask Dublin Bus and Go-ahead Ireland about the penalties they have had to pay this year. Have they had to pay similar fines previously or has this year been one like no other, discounting the Covid years?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I thank Ms Keane. I ask Go-Ahead Ireland the same question as my time is running out.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I am happy with the net figure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Provision of Bus Services in Dublin: Discussion (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: What was the figure for Go-Ahead Ireland?