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

Duncan Smith: 326. To ask the Minister for Health the reason that some branded medicines have not been required to be reduced in price following the approval of a generic equivalent, as required by the 2021 industry agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61500/22]

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

Duncan Smith: 327. To ask the Minister for Health if a higher reimbursement price is granted to unlicensed medicines than the licensed version of the same medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (13 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 381. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the plans that she has to address the shortfall in secondary school places in County Kildare (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62325/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards (13 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 382. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the discussions that she has had with an ETB (details supplied) regarding increasing the number of secondary school places; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62326/22]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Welfare Services (13 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 434. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of locations in the State that offer a drop-in centre where a community welfare officer would be available; the location of these drop-in centres; the number of drop-in centres offering this service over each of the past three years in tabular form by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62327/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (14 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 97. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when the National Coastal Change Management Strategy steering group will report on its initial findings and recommendations given that the group was due to report within six months of its foundation in September 2020 (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62628/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 195. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking in ensuring that funding for sessional childcare facilities and those wholly reliant on ECCE fees will be restructured to provide for the continued viability of these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 262. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on when the cystic fibrosis drug kaftrio will be available for all children, with specific regard to the 35 children in Ireland who are waiting on the drug; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62444/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (14 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 261. To ask the Minister for Health if he is concerned about a paracetamol shortage in Ireland; the plans that his Department is putting in place to address the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62443/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (14 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 281. To ask the Minister for Health if he will undertake a review of the current BreastCheck screening process (details supplied) in conjunction with the National Screening Advisory Committee to report breast density in BreastCheck to ensure women are informed appropriately and to give consideration to extending the breast check programme to younger women, who are more likely to have dense...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Residency Permits (15 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 280. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if there are delays in the processing of stamp 4 extensions; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [62833/22]

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

Duncan Smith: Surely those architects could just as easily be served building another pier.

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

Duncan Smith: My point is that the DAA appears before our committee regularly enough and will say that it operates in the marketplace, in the private sector, and must turn a profit. Dalton Philips would have a very private sector kind of view to my mind, at least. For me, it does not add up that it would not want to. Is the friction that continues to exist between the DAA and Ryanair resolvable? Surely...

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

Duncan Smith: The tension is quite public all the time and maybe the kissing and making up is in private.

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

Duncan Smith: They should not be mutually exclusive. I want to see the airport thrive because I want to see workers with well-paid jobs in the airport being able to live locally as they have done and to continue to grow towns such as Swords, as has been the case over the years. That is where I am coming from. Mr. O'Leary's opening statement referred to the move to lower-cost airports. We had an issue...

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

Duncan Smith: There has to be a balance there. There cannot just be a shed that we process people through.

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

Duncan Smith: Those are the basics that I am talking about. I am not talking about the Toblerones. I am talking about the basics.

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

Duncan Smith: Absolutely, yes. It is has been five years since Ryanair has recognised trade unions and has been engaging with them. How has that impacted on the culture of the organisation from Ryanair's perspective? Could it and should it have done so earlier?

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

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. O'Leary. I have loads more but I have run out of time.