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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (29 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: 83. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason her Department has cut the annual grant for primary schools from €96 a year per pupil to €80; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24196/24]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capitation Grants (29 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: 84. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she plans to reverse the decision to cut the annual grant for primary schools from €96 a year per pupil to €80; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [24197/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (29 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Health the HSE expenditure on vaccines, excluding Covid-19 vaccines, for each of the years 2019 to 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24254/24]

Social Welfare (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2024: Second Stage (30 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: The Labour Party welcomes the introduction of the pay-related benefit for jobseekers. I heard what the Minister said in her opening statement when she stated that the Bill is about establishing the principle in the first instance and a Rolls Royce Bill would, as she said, probably mean we would not be having this debate now or introducing the principle in the first place. We welcome that,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 6. To ask the Minister for Health what actions his Department is taking to lower car parking charges at hospitals in circumstances where car parking charges are currently at unacceptable levels and waiting times in hospitals can mean that undertaking a CT scan can cost a patient €15; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25065/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: We are bringing up again - this has been brought up a great deal - car park charges for patients. It remains a major cost and burden on sick people accessing our hospitals to obtain acute care. We need to see a strategy from Government that will bring these costs down. I thank the Minister.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Minister. That is good to hear. There are different costs in the various hospitals. As the Minister knows, there will be sick people who might have treatments in different hospitals. There is no uniformity to it. I acknowledge progress has been made and costs have come down and I want to acknowledge the work of the Irish Cancer Society and others with respect to their...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Hospital Facilities (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Okay.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 14. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to provide State funding to an organisation (details supplied) that is currently fully reliant on donations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25063/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Does the Minister have any plans to provide State funding to the Irish Lung Fibrosis Association to help it carry out its ongoing work?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Funding (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: That is encouraging. The support to access existing funding pots while the scoping exercise is under way is welcome. The ILFA appeared at the health committee in April and has made a request to meet the Minister. Its asks include: additional financial supports for patients; consideration of tax rebates and grants - I welcome the Minister mentioning the latter; State funding for ILFA...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 16. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce a consultant-led helicopter emergency service that would bring lifesaving expertise to the scene of crashes rather than waiting for the injured to arrive at a hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25062/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: What are the Minister's plans to develop a consultant-led helicopter emergency service that would bring lifesaving expertise to the scene of crashes and accidents? It was news to me that Ireland is an outlier among our European counterparts as regards this service. It is something we need to provide. I think the Taoiseach or the Minister has made positive comments on this matter. I would...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ambulance Service (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I agree with what the Minister said in terms of how highly skilled our advanced paramedic teams are and the level of care they provide at the scene of accidents and crashes. However, having examined this consultant-led model, I think it is one we need to look at because there are things consultants can provide that cannot be provided by advanced paramedics such as anaesthesia to protect the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Before I begin, I send the best wishes of the Labour Party to Deputy Jennifer Whitmore. Last night's "Prime Time Investigates" exposed some shocking practices in the Irish horse racing industry focusing on how horses, most of them racing thoroughbreds, are treated in the final period of their lives. After a life which many of them spent in the public spotlight being worked, they then enter...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Can the Minister give a categorical guarantee that this is not happening today and that there are now vets in Shannonside every day, not just when the slaughter is happening? Regarding animal welfare, we are putting €95 million of taxpayers' money into the Horse and Greyhound Fund, with €76 million going into Horse Racing Ireland. Animal welfare is not just about animal...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: The European football championship begins tomorrow and the Republic of Ireland will not have a team there. We do not have a permanent manager. It has been nearly a year since the Labour Party brought the first ever debate on football and grassroots football funding into this Dáil. Football is still the most widely played sport in the country, and despite the vibrancy of the League of...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation (Transfer of Functions) Bill 2024: First Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to give further effect to the Aircraft Noise Regulation in so far as it relates to Dublin Airport by transferring the functions of the competent authority for the purposes of that Regulation from the Fingal County Council to the Environmental Protection Agency; and to provide for connected matters. The Bill is about...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation (Transfer of Functions) Bill 2024: First Stage (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Protection of Accident Victims from Non-Consensual Recording of Images Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (13 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: Before I begin, I wish Martin all the best in his retirement and thank him very much. I had the privilege of being in this House as both a Member and a staff member for a number of years, and the courtesy I was shown did not differ. That is the same for everyone, which is a testament to Martin and his colleagues, so I wish him all the best. I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second...