Results 101-120 of 136 for speaker:Duncan Smith

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: It is not insulting to us as such, but to the families, the parents, the SNAs and the activists in the Gallery, outside and throughout the country. It is insulting to the 126 children who are without a school place now, one of whom, Frankie Edgeworth in my constituency, has been refused 83 different forms of education from preschool to primary school. He is six years of age and severely...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide assurances that an individual (details supplied) will receive an offer of a school place for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21340/25]

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: Europe Day celebrates peace and unity in Europe, but as we know and are witnessing there is no peace in Gaza and the occupied territories at this moment. This is a huge responsibility and weakness in the foreign policy of the European Union and how it operates in its neighbourhood. It is now more than 50 days since any food or medicine has been allowed into Gaza. Europe, with a few...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: The Green Party is only out of Government a wet week and we are already seeing-----

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (8 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: -----an increase in public transport fares. The new Leap card zonal fare is harshly and dramatically impacting commuters travelling through zones 2, 3 and 4 especially. This impacts the Tánaiste's own constituency. I got a response from the NTA that said it is going to begin a scoping exercise of the impact of the new fare structure. I have schoolchildren in my constituency going...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (8 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: 153. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the planned negotiations for a radar detection system; the expected cost of the system; a timeline for the delivery of the system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23068/25]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (8 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: It is a national embarrassment that we are without detection systems in our skies and waters and must rely on the Royal Air Force, RAF. We have outsourced that element of our sovereignty for a long time. The Tánaiste brought a note to Cabinet on a radar detection system that he wants to bring on board. Will he provide to the House more details on the timelines and costs involved?

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (8 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Tánaiste. We are so far behind in our capability. Is it envisioned that what is going to be provided and online for the State will be of the highest technical standard compared with other states? Will we be bringing in equipment to a specification that is perhaps ten or 20 years behind other states? We must improve our national security. Only when we are minding our...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Defence Forces (8 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: The provision of modern fit-for-purpose capabilities is important. There would be more trust from this side of the House if we were not having the parallel debate on the triple lock and what is coming down the tracks there. There are places we can land on in terms of the extraction of Irish citizens and ensuring that capability can be raised but the multilateral backup of the UN for...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 175. To ask the Taoiseach the reason subsistence allowance was removed from a group of persons working with the Central Statistics Office (details supplied); and if a circular exists detailing the reason it was removed will be provided. [19370/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the allocations of €1.5 million to OCHA and UNHCR respectively are the same as those included in Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 3 April 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19016/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, due to the challenges to the distribution of aid in Burma-Myanmar posed by the military junta, any measures are being taken to ensure the aid being provided will reach the people most in need of assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19017/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Parking Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide clarity on the delivery of a multi-storey car park at Portmarnock train station; the reason the project has not been advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the lack of education provision in Donabate (details supplied) for children with ASD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19021/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that exist for self-employed people who pay PRSI class S who are diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for the invalidity pension; the length of time the applicant must be out of work to apply; the period of absence by which will be out of work to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the provision of promised reforms in relation to parental alienation as promised by the Minister in 2024, and based from a Department report in 2023 which cited the concept of parental alienation as highly controversial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19015/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1821. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to a Ukrainian family (details supplied) in desperate need of accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1917. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her Department’s plans to increase creche places in Fingal, specifically in Portmarnock, Donabate and Swords; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Investigations (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 2026. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the extent to which parents who declined surgery were included in the CHI audit on hip dysplasia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18830/25]