Results 3,501-3,520 of 4,026 for speaker:

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Murphy and welcome you all here today. This work from SIPTU is vitally important. It is a tipping point. It brings together the anecdotal experience that thousands of us have felt on public transport, as well as issues that maybe made the media, but crystallises it into one report which needs to act as a tipping point in terms of action on this issue. If our workers are not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (23 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 135. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the exact nature and current status with regard to the European Commission’s announcement of 24 January 2024 that it was sending Ireland a formal notice (INFR(2024)0071) for failing to transpose Directive (EU) 2022/2380 amending Directive 2014/53/EU (‘the Radio Equipment Directive’); and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (23 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 423. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when a domiciliary allowance payment, which was submitted on behalf of a person (details supplied) in November 2023, will be awarded to the applicant; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18116/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Internships (23 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 691. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of the current anomaly whereby Irish medical students who studied in Northern Ireland are classed as a tier-two applicant for the internship programme in the HSE; if he will commit to reviewing the current process for internship placement allocation so this is no longer the case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18089/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Period Poverty (23 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 694. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will increase the €200 thousand share of funding for Naughton + Smyth framework for the provision of period products to higher-education institutions (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18090/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: After-School Support Services (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if, given the serious shortage in childcare and in particular after school facilities, she will approve the use of primary school buildings as after school service premises by childcare operators, as there is a severe shortage of premises available to provide these services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18260/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 106. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the steps she will take to expedite an application for carer's allowance by a person (details supplied) which was submitted in December 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Public Sector Pay (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 163. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that retired medical scientists are excluded from the benefit of the pay parity award that was implemented on 1 January 2024 (details supplied); if there is a plan to ensure that these retired workers receive pay parity; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18176/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the reason an operation for a person (details supplied) has not taken place; when this operation is expected to take place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18238/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank all the witnesses for attending. As I said when I was briefly in the Chair at the start of the meeting, this body of work should serve as a tipping point in terms of real action on this. We talk about the transport police in the airport being a template perhaps. I feel much safer in an airport for several reasons. There are barriers to entry into airports, they are usually outside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I will then have one question for the panel afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Yes, it is huge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: It is interesting what we heard from those two contributions. Would Mr. Wynne like to come in with his perspective from Irish Rail?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Doyle, Ms Armstrong and Mr. Wynne very much. What Mr. Doyle said is interesting. Representing a constituency that does not have a Luas service, I sometimes hear people say that it would be great if Dublin Bus or the DART had the security services that are on the Luas, without them understanding the reality that has just been articulated. The people causing trouble on the Luas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Yes, it should be uniformed and have real power and real teeth. There seems to have been a level of destaffing in traditional roles across some public transport services over the years. Let us take stationmasters at train stations as an example. Platform staff have also gone from train stations. It would also seem that there are fewer inspectors on Dublin Bus services. Even where they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Murphy for giving us this tool. We have had management before this committee and we have raised with them safety issues on public transport. We raise issues like something that might happen in the summer on the DART line or the Dublin riots. They always come back and tell us they had an action on a weekend at the end of August where there were dedicated gardaí on the train...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (25 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 296. To ask the Minister for Health the reason test strips for diabetes are not covered by the medical card as in the case of a person (details supplied) who spends €33.00 per month on this item; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18456/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank everyone for coming in today. There was more detail on data sharing on road safety in the material that came with the opening statement but I will ask this for the benefit of those watching. The opening statement referred to data sharing taking place in some form. The locations of interest and local authorities can apply under a location of interest safety scheme and 55 did last...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Is the data being shared being shared on a sound legal footing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Am I out of time?