Results 401-420 of 423 for speaker:Duncan Smith

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Security (7 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 108. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to provide an assessment of Dublin Airports preparedness to counter drone threats; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53650/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (7 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide the number of children from the Donabate and Portrane area travelling to primary and secondary school outside of the area in the 2024 school year, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53671/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (7 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to outline the details of the schools included in the national development plan in the Donabate area; to confirm if funding has been secured for these schools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53672/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Conservation (7 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 309. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to clarify if bird shooting is prohibited at the Broadmeadow Estuary, Donabate in the vicinity of the Corballis Cottages; to give consideration to this area becoming a protected area given its proximity to an SAC and SPA and given the sensitivity of this site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53668/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Disability and Equality: Childcare Services (7 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 540. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the policy for the cap on childcare fees for parents whose children attend facilities for less than 50 hours per week (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [53669/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (8 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his Department’s plans to lower housing costs in Fingal; the way in which his Department plans to ensure that the first home scheme keeps up with the housing price increases that Fingal has seen year on year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53742/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (9 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to complete an assessment of enrolment policies in the secondary schools in Dublin Fingal East; to identify geographical areas in the constituency that are disadvantaged by schools enrolment policies; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54330/25]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: I thank the ambassador for addressing our committee today. I apologise for missing the beginning as I was in the Dáil speaking. I will pick up on the point Deputy Ó Laoghaire was asking about. Has Ukraine compiled a list of these third countries that are facilitating these loopholes in dual-use technologies, or at least the worst offenders of this? Have they presented such a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: We need to focus our actions on pressuring Hungary further.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: What I found most arresting about the ambassador’s opening statement was the level of detail as to just how active and brutal the war remains to this day. I refer to the level of Russia’s attacks, including missile and drone attacks and the destruction of infrastructure, hospitals and everything else. It is just relentless and it is continuing. While it seems we are a...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: That is interesting, although not unexpected. It is interesting in the context of our internal debates and dialogue and what is going on there. I thank Ms Gerasko.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: While I will not be calling a vote on this, I believe that, given the significant developments in Palestine in the past couple of days, it would be of relevance to the House if we had an update on the overall situation in Palestine, particularly in relation to the provision of aid, both emergency and structural, and Ireland's role in that. What does the Tánaiste mean by having an open...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: I want to raise the early years sector with the Taoiseach today. Much has been made of the Government's failure to live up to its pre-election promises in this area. I want to focus on a specific area, that is, the community not-for-profit and voluntary sector for early years. In the wider Fingal area there are 291 early years service providers but only 16, or 5%, of them are from the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Foreign Affairs and Trade: Update on Current Situation in Ukraine: H.E. Larysa Gerasko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Ireland (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: In terms of Ukraine's desire to join the European Union - one which we fully support - how can we in Ireland promote that in advance of cluster 1? Is there anything more we can do or can we do something better to support Ukraine on this?

Gnó na Dála - Business of Dáil (15 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: I echo what Deputy Mac Lochlainn said. At all the Business Committee meetings I have been at, we have seldom had such a direct discussion about needing time as last week - it was on the fisheries issue - and the Chief Whip came down strongly, saying the schedule was full, there was loads of legislation and there was no time for anything. Yet we are engineering a parliamentary schedule that...

National Training Fund (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (16 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: The Bill before us is not complicated. It makes a small, focused change to the way in which the National Training Fund can be spent. We in the Labour Party have long advocated for better use to be made of this fund. For too long we have seen huge surpluses built up with little in the way of ideas, imagination or indeed a mechanism being put forward on how to spend this money. In the years...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 228. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if the exclusion of Defence Forces members from WRC remedies under the Protected Disclosures Act 2014 is intended; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54892/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 448. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if school bus escorts are entitled to be paid to attend mandatory, full-day child protection training courses that special needs assistants are paid for under the Croke Park Agreement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54933/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (14 Oct 2025)

Duncan Smith: 654. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will re-examine an application made for carer’s allowance (details supplied) in respect of backdating; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54577/25]