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Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee
Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: I would like to discuss it.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee
Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: I move amendment No. 10: In page 40, between lines 9 and 10, to insert the following: "Crew Peer Support Programmes 58.The Act of 1993 is amended by the insertion of section 14C: "14C. (1)The Irish Aviation Authority shall periodically review the crew peer support programmes provided by the holders of air carrier licences or otherwise made available by them to crew pursuant to...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee
Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: Similar to my previous response, it might be something we pick up between now and Report Stage. I will not push this to a vote.

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee
Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: Deputy O'Rourke summed it up extremely well so there is no need for me to add anything. Our amendments come from the same source and there is now agreement the Minister of State will meet us and will ask the officials to meet the people who have done a lot of work on the amendments. I am happy with this approach if other members are also. I am not sure whether Deputy O'Rourke is. I do not...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee
Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: I move amendment No. 19: In page 56, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following: "(2) The Act of 1993 is amended by the insertion of the text set out in Schedule 4as Schedule 3 to that Act.".

Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (30 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: I am delighted to have an opportunity to contribute. The previous speaker mentioned how we are becoming more attuned to discussing the 15-minute city and the ten-minute town but every Wednesday we discuss the three-hour guillotined debate on important legislation. It is not just because of Covid. It can no longer be the excuse for why we have to condense such important debates into such a...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: I want to put on record that we could have had questions and answers this morning. Many of the questions that have been asked by the preceding Deputies and others that are going to be asked are ones he would be able to answer easily enough. We all accept there is stuff he cannot answer and would have to come back to us on. We welcome the Minister's contribution on "Morning Ireland"...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (1 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: 501. To ask the Minister for Health when a person (details supplied) will be offered a date for vaccination; the way in which the person can register given that they have been unable to source a vaccination through their general practitioner and the hospital could not give any time range; if he will address these issues as a matter of urgency; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Ban on Rent Increases Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: The Minister is correct that there is no silver bullet for the housing or rental crises, but the Bill is a bullet. It is a very good Bill. It is short but it is potent and, if implemented, it will make a real difference. There is no reason why it should not be implemented. As Deputy Ó Broin, the proposer of the Bill, stated, a version of this has been done before. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (6 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: 268. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when training and courses for the Defence Forces will resume given Ireland's current level status under the Living with Covid Plan; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29705/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Dental Services (6 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: 335. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to receive treatment without incurring a charge payable to their treating dentist; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35848/21]

Post Office Network: Motion [Private Members] (7 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Regional Group for tabling the motion. Private Members’ time is an important slot, and I would say that as I am in opposition, but when we see groups or parties use their Private Members' time, which does not come up that often, to bring some continuity to a debate, it shows how much that group believes in it. It is an important issue for this House and we need to discuss...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (7 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: 81. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if two children with learning difficulties from the same family both in primary school are entitled to the same hours for the July provision, that is, ten hours each; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36715/21]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Missing Persons (8 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: 98. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the work of her Department in relation to the identification of unidentified bodies and linking this data with the missing persons database; and the progress her Department has made in its work referenced in a reply to a Topical Issue raised by this Deputy on 4 March 2021; and if she will make a statement on the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Missing Persons (8 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: I would like to ask the Minister for Justice the status of the work of her Department on the identification of unidentified bodies, how this data is linked with the missing persons database and the progress her Department has made in its work referenced in the reply to my Topical Issue matter earlier this year.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Missing Persons (8 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Minister. This is not a confrontational exchange. Rather, I am seeking to improve what the State is providing. What the Minister has said is good. However, I have an issue with the date of 2019. Another lot of these cases are historical and go back a few decades. We are not talking about going back to the 1900s or even the early 20th century. Cases date from the 1960s,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Missing Persons (8 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: A lot of work is being done. To quote Ms Clare Clarke Keane, who has sought the truth about her sister Priscilla who has been missing since 1988, when family members approach a coroner's office or cemetery it still feels like turning up at a lost property office. That is how much separation there is between what the State is doing and how families feel. That said, I take the Minister's...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (8 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: 225. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a case (details supplied) which relates to two primary school going children with learning difficulties in the same family who were allocated reduced July provision hours; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [36881/21]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues facing the Aviation Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: I thank Ms Embleton and Mr. Moriarty for attending today. In her statement on 2 June, Ms Embleton stated that she read some commentary that significant conditionality and restrictions should accompany any financial supports that those in the aviation sector receive and said that such conditionality is not acceptable to Aer Lingus and anything that would impose additional inefficiency on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues facing the Aviation Industry: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: If Ms Embleton was to ask the Minister of Finance for money, how much would it be? If I am hearing her correctly, that money would on fixed costs such as keeping planes and not so much on keeping the employees servicing, crewing, fuelling and flying them. Is this a correct assumption?