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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: That is encouraging. I am conscious that following last night's debate on the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill, the Department of Health is having to do more work on that going into January. That is understandable and a good thing. I am conscious of the pressure the Department is under but this is something we feel must be brought forward as early as possible. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: Last week's two-hour debate included many examples, stories and emotive words on this. This question is not replaying that but is a demonstration that we are continuing to push this until it is delivered beyond the citizens’ assembly. The work of Deputy Ó Ríordáin on this especially is to be commended. Public opinion is with this. When speaking to families,...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Projects (6 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when a project (details supplied) will be completed and opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60858/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (6 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 570. To ask the Minister for Health the number of women and babies who have been discharged into the care of homeless services from maternity hospitals in the past three months; and the number who have been discharged in need of emergency accommodation but with no accommodation to go to. [60354/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (6 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 571. To ask the Minister for Health if there are figures from the maternity hospitals on the number of additional night's stay that were necessary for women and children in maternity hospitals due to the mother and child having no accommodation to go to. [60355/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (6 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 679. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with medical card patients availing of dental appointments and procedures given the notice many of them are getting that their current practice is withdrawing from the service; the steps he is taking to put this in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60856/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (6 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 680. To ask the Minister for Health the-up-to-date position with medical card patients availing of dental appointments and procedures given the notice many of them are getting in County Kildare (details supplied) that their current practise is withdrawing from the service; the steps he is taking to put this in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60857/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. O’Leary for appearing before the committee today. I wish to continue the discussion on the tunnel at Dublin Airport. The DAA would pride itself as being quite profitable, professional, forward-thinking, well planned and all the rest of it. Mr. O’Leary is saying that the DAA is wasting €200 million on this. The DAA is saying that there is a safety element...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I represent the Dublin Fingal constituency and I was a county councillor in Swords, so I have been receiving the DAA’s literature through the door for years. It would seem to me to be a very growth-oriented organisation. It would only be chomping at the bit to add another pier or terminal to improve capacity. Why is it not doing this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: My apologies, but surely the DAA would value profitability over increased charges. Mr. O’Leary is laying out, as he has done continually for many years, growth plans for Dublin Airport if he was given the scope to do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: Surely the DAA would say that it was better off to take a particular course of action because ultimately, its bottom line would improve and it would be able to reinvest, etc. Mr. O’Leary’s view on this just does not add up as to why-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Waiting Lists (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the waiting lists for orthopaedic and urology surgeries for disabilities which become more painful and inoperable over time; the actions that he is taking to reduce these lists; and if he has met with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61095/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 31. To ask the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding medical card patients availing of dental appointments and procedures (details supplied); the measures that he is putting in place in respect of the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61092/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 65. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce legislation to allow a mobile supervised injecting centre while the approved injecting centre is being delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61094/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Abortion Services (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the work carried out by a person (details supplied) on the report into the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act) 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61091/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to make hormone replacement therapy, HRT, medication free for persons going through menopause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61093/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 322. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated amount in euros that has been saved by his Department from moving from branded to generic medications in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61496/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 323. To ask the Minister for Health the volume of packs of unlicensed medicines that are being brought into the market to alleviate medicine shortages; the estimated cost of these unlicensed medicines per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61497/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 324. To ask the Minister for Health the average time taken by the HSE to decide on applications for medications to be added to the reimbursement list; the average time taken to adjudicate on hardship cases where manufacturers are seeking price increases due to inflationary costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61498/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 325. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to enhance the functionality of the reimbursement approval process to improve efficiency in decision-making and thereby secure additional sources of medicines, in particular generic medicines, onto the market, in the context of the increasing medicine supply shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61499/22]