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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 205. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a new secondary school at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44100/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (16 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 206. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the provision of a primary school extension at a school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44101/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (16 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 207. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a Christmas bonus; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44094/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (16 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) in County Kildare is receiving a reduced fuel allowance and has had their fuel allowance stopped; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44092/20]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance (16 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 233. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) in County Kildare has been refused the fuel allowance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44093/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (17 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to alleviate the lack of secondary school places in the Malahide and Portmarnock areas of County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44209/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 376. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans for a new school building (details supplied); if a site been identified; the timeframe for the delivery on the project; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44210/20]

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: Before asking my questions, I wish to say that my thoughts today are with the victims and survivors who passed through our mother and baby homes. I will speak and leave the Minister with a few questions. The first matter of two that I wish to focus on is that of travel. The Minister knows how strongly I felt about a proper regime of testing and follow-up contacts in respect of people...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: Will the data be published?

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are future plans to use the trainline in Duleek, east County Meath, which is currently in use by a company (details supplied) on the old Navan to Drogheda line for commuter purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 798. To ask the Minister for Health the plans his Department and the HSE have with regard to licensing the drug dupilumab for use by patients with severe eczema in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44840/20]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: I will ask questions back and forth of the Minister, if he will allow me. As of 13 January, 69,700 front-line healthcare workers had received a vaccine, according to the HSE's figures. The Minister stated, however, that as of Sunday next, 24 January, a target of 140,000 will have been reached, split more or less evenly between healthcare workers and people in nursing homes and their staff....

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: I raise that issue because we are at an important juncture in the vaccine roll-out. It is early, but confidence has been shaken by the incidents spoken about earlier. The first guiding principle of the sequencing document is transparency and practicality. Transparency is really important. The Minister and the HSE need to get this right now, to fix the mistakes and get confidence going....

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: That would be most helpful. The indicative dates for everyone else in all those groups - October, November or whenever it may be - such as meat plant workers, other healthcare workers, dentists and retail workers, may shift and change based on supply but, again, transparency and communication will help. My worry is that if the Government goes wrong here, resentment will breed and we will...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 17 November 2020, the plans his Department has to provide for an appeals process within the motor tax legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3961/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of hard defence schemes that have been approved by his Department in respect of coastal erosion throughout the country during the past 20 years; the details of such schemes approved; the amount of funding provided; if such schemes have been located in areas classified as special areas of conservation under the EU Habitats...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocol that exists within her Department to enable homeless persons to be aware of and receive a basic weekly payment; her plans to improve its effectiveness in order that everyone is cherished equally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3667/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a pension from her Department given contributions paid prior to their emigration to the UK. [3782/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Passenger Data (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 147. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of persons who arrived into airports and ports by country of departure in Ireland in each week of January 2021; the number that arrived by the country of origin based on the country that issued their passport; if the figures as published cover charter flights; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5983/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if the scheme currently in place for drivers aged 70 years of age and over will be extended to facilitate drivers who are immunosuppressed or in a vulnerable health category to renew their driver licence by post if they cannot attend at a NDLS centre; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5137/21]