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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 160. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of career break applications in the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps in each of the years 2016 to 2019 and to date in 2020; the number of career breaks granted in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30695/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 161. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of increasing military service allowances by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30696/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 162. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of increasing technical pay by 10%; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30697/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Personnel (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 163. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of discharges being processed and-or pending from the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30698/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 164. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to provide employment protection legislation for reservists to allow for the undertaking of courses, exercises or other activities within the Defence Forces; the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30699/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 165. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost implications of excluding wages paid to reservists from income tax for 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30700/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 166. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of establishing two Naval Service crews for each ship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30701/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to modernise the public sector circular 51 of 1978, which provides reservists leave for training with the Defence Forces but does not provide cover for other situations such as aid to civil power; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30702/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to invest in accommodation to be provided to military families to ease the financial burdens on them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30703/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 169. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces CIS units; the established strength of each; his plans to enhance cybersecurity protections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30704/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all members of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps are provided with a Defence Forces email address upon joining to facilitate easier communication throughout the organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30705/20]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: I agree with what the Ceann Comhairle has said but much of what has been mentioned previously was discussed at last week's Business Committee meeting. To add to that, we are here at the Order of Business and we have no visibility of when the emergency Bill for the extension of the ban on evictions will be introduced. We know, or sense, that it will come in on Thursday, a day that is already...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Sport and Recreational Development (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 254. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will support efforts to provide sporting outlets for those over 35 years of age to keep them active and interested in sports in view of a number of examples (details supplied); her views on the idea; and if her Department will consider grant aiding such efforts. [30978/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Parks and Wildlife Service (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 275. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the timelines for the duration of the study by the National Parks and Wildlife Service for research into the survival and behaviour of hares released into the wild after being rescued from hare coursing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31230/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 387. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of applications for domiciliary care grants in the past three years; the number of applications refused in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30973/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Domiciliary Care Allowance (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 388. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the number of appeals of refusals of domiciliary care grants in the past three years; the number of applications that were awarded following appeal in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30974/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 440. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if he will consider including a town (details supplied) in County Kildare in a youth development programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30975/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 441. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding allocated to County Kildare for youth projects over each of the past three years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30976/20]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Services (20 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 442. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if his Department has completed research (details supplied); the status of the research; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30977/20]

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: Nothing speaks to the harshness and horror of the Irish experience in the almost 100-year history of our State than the experiences of those who had to endure and survive, and in some cases the experiences of those who did not survive, our State-sponsored institutions, such as mother and baby homes. Quite frankly, it is shocking, disheartening and totally avoidable that the Government is...