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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Surveys (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: 99. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Questions Nos. 605 to 608, inclusive, of 27 July 2021, in particular with regard to the stated cost of the contract for his Department's national urban gull survey, and, regarding the €75,250, excluding VAT, the way the survey was funded. [46944/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Surveys (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: 100. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 609 of 27 July 2021, if he will provide a date for publication of the survey results with regard to his Department’s national urban seagull survey conducted earlier in 2021. [46945/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Health and Safety (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: 101. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether urban seagull colonies are having serious negative impacts on communities such that proportionate measures are urgently required to mitigate such impacts in the interests of public health and safety (details supplied); if so, the proportionate measures he plans to take; and the date he will announce such...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: 263. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to map public AEDs throughout the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47176/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Defibrillators Provision (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: 264. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to provide more public AEDs particularly in areas in which there is a lack of the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47177/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: As the Tánaiste will be aware, the march for maternity care will take place on Wednesday, 6 October, at 1 p.m. outside the gates of Leinster House. Yesterday, the Better Maternity Care campaign group met with the HSE to discuss a roadmap for maternity care and, yet again, the group was left utterly frustrated and angry. Indeed, "heartsore" was one word used by Ms Linda Kelly, a member...

Cork University Maternity Hospital: Statements (30 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: None of us who watched the "RTÉ Investigates" programme on Tuesday night could not but be moved by the scandalous effect on the 18 families the organs of whose poor children were sent abroad for incineration. The courage, composure and strength shown in the programme by Leona Bermingham and Glenn Callanan, who lost their son Lee's organs, were incredible and I do not believe any of us...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: I am sorry I missed the start of the meeting. I missed various contributions. Deputy O'Rourke raised MetroLink, which I will start off with. I am sure it is no surprise to the Minister. Under subhead B6, I understand, in response to Deputy O'Rourke earlier on in the meeting, the Minister stated he hopes that the project will be completed between 2028 and 2034, and hopefully not at the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: What the Minister said there is encouraging and good. The planning process is outside his control. Legal challenges are also outside his control, but for him to say if it gets through that he would hope to be in a position to press "Go" is encouraging. The people understand that there is a significant element of this outside the Minister's control. We cannot just put the JCBs on the...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: I gave the members a year of yapping about that. In all seriousness, there is no other project that is similar in scale to MetroLink and there is the demand that will be there from the second runway. New houses and apartments will be built in Swords through the Fosterstown development plan. Those householders will all have to transit out of the tow to work, school, college or whatever....

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: Will the Minister explain the business case to the people who are watching these proceedings? In 2011, we were in the midst of economic hardship. MetroLink was paused at that time. In 2015, it was brought back onto the table and, in 2018, it was committed to. My understanding is that for the first time in the history of metro north, as it was known, it was tested against other solutions,...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: Those options were looked at and thought suboptimal in comparison with MetroLink. Are we opening that again?

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Swimming Pools (5 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: 21. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will increase funding for the provision of public swimming pools; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43947/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Early Childhood Care and Education (7 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: 152. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there are plans to alter the eligibility for the ECCE scheme given the cut-off dates currently set as part of the scheme can lead to one child missing out on the cut-off by a mere couple of days but having to wait an entire year to access the ECCE scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45020/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (7 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if there are consequences in place if a venue has breached the guidelines by not checking EU Digital COVID Certificates while admitting persons to the premises. [48809/21]

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: The communities are well into the design phase. They have gone through a couple of phases and are engaged with TII. People are starting to believe this is going to happen. There have been ground testing works and all the rest. That is why the reaction has been so visceral this time. In the past, people did not believe it was happening. Now people believe the process is happening. I...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Estimates for Public Services 2021
Vote 29 - Communications
Vote 31 - Transport (29 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: Nobody wants the taxpayer to be rinsed. The Department always seems to be rinsed when it comes to large projects that cost a lot of money. The taxpayer also wants to see a top quality children's hospital. Most people who have come through Dublin Airport want to see a high-speed MetroLink and understand the rationale behind it. On a separate note, there is evidence of the budget for what...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (12 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: To follow on from the remarks of Deputy Catherine Murphy, smoking causes 6,000 preventable deaths each year. Members may agree or disagree with that figure. I agree with it. This financial resolution is one the Labour Party will be supporting. It is aimed at young people. People under the age of 24 make up 20% of smokers. Young people are still smoking. I hope it is not an unintended...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (12 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: 194. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will ensure that any scheme for the remediation of homes with pyrite or MICA in the block work will not be limited on a geographic basis and that any homes impacted by this will be included regardless of location; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49790/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Websites (12 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: 452. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her attention has been drawn to the fact that a new set of answers was posted on 16 June 2021 on the eJustice Portal1 relating to procedural time limits; and if her attention has been further drawn to the fact that incorrect information has been provided in relation to 12 answers (details supplied). [49582/21]