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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (4 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 515. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the progress that is being made on ratification of the Optional Protocol of the UNCRPD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32497/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 634. To ask the Minister for Health whether the national children’s flu vaccine programme will continue to be free of charge for the 2–17 age group for the 2023/2024 flu season; whether there are any plans to change age eligibility for the free scheme for the coming season; the rationale for any such proposed change; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32491/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (4 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 635. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the HSE tender for the delivery of the nasal flu vaccine to children in primary schools and special schools between October and December 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32492/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Programmes (4 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 636. To ask the Minister for Health to outline the implementation of the Cost of Disability Action Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32496/23]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 137. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the backdated increase in child benefit to the qualified child will be paid to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33115/23]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (6 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: I have just come from the Family Carers Ireland briefing across the road. In their own words, this is a group that is relied upon but not listened to. I listened to the testimony of Lynsey O'Donovan from Swords who is the carer of her son Jack. They do not want praise or platitudes, they want action. Their prebudget submission has been launched and I am sure the Tánaiste and his...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: I welcome the opportunity to speak on these statements on progress concerning the NPWS. This organisation has required dramatic structural change. An attempt is being made to do this, but it is a shame this is happening at a time when the world is burning and we are at crisis levels in respect of biodiversity loss. We are playing catch-up to get our own battalions in order and ready to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: I genuinely thank all the witnesses for coming today and for their opening statements, as well as the various visits that have been organised, sometimes through the committee and sometimes outside of it. We had an awful lot of meetings last year which were based on operational crises, but we have reached a space now where we need to collate the recommendations and come up with a view on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: Could I get a response to the point on the over-70s?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: In terms of me asking that question, it is important to have that aired given what we went through with school transport last year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: The reason we are here is the difficulty in recruiting drivers. I absolutely understand the safety side of things. When we are losing drivers, however, and we have people who are, as Mr. Barton said-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: They have only just come in to do this in the last five or six years and maybe set up a little business to be able to pay their mortgages off and all the rest. They only just started this in their mid-60s, however, so they have had a short time and they are being cut off.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Driver Recruitment: Discussion (5 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: I am sorry.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: I ask Deputy Feighan to correct the record. There is not only one Rovers; there are the champions, and they play in Tallaght. The era of poor old soccer, football, being at the back of the queue has ended. I commend my colleague, Deputy Ó Ríordáin, on his passion and commitment to this - not this week, last week or last month but throughout both his teaching life and his...

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: In his closing remarks, the Tánaiste articulated a desire that all of us share for a just and sustainable peace in Israel and Palestine, especially for the Palestinian people. The events in Jenin on 3, 4 and 5 July make that goal, which was already so far distant, appear even further away. This is an escalation in the conflict that we have not seen in probably 20 years. This is not a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Schemes (11 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 155. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the wheelchair-accessible vehicle scheme has been paused; if so, the reason for this; his plans for the scheme in the future; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33807/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Policies (11 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 350. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to several Parliamentary Questions of 13 June 2023, in particular where he provided additional information not actually sought in the questions viz that "Matters relating to prohibiting the feeding of wild birds; correctly disposing of rubbish on our streets to make them less attractive and to discourage them from...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (11 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 351. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a specific matter (details supplied). [33551/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (11 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 352. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason his Department or the National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) is applying a decision threshold in relation to the control of urban gull species (herring gulls) whereby they must pose a threat to public health and safety in densely populated urban areas in order to be included in the Annual derogation...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (11 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 353. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will address a series of queries (details supplied). [33553/23]