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Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: If there could be a bit of latitude, half a minute would not go astray.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: A Cheann Comhairle, I will just make a comment with regard to the loss to the Exchequer resulting from illicit tobacco products coming into our State-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: -----because of the excessive prices of legal products here.

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Ceann Comhairle will recall me speaking in this House on many occasions-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: -----with regard to illicit fuel products coming from paramilitary organisations-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: -----and others involved in the illicit trade. Unfortunately, as Deputy Carthy said, we now have illicit tobacco products that are inferior in quality coming into the country. I am totally opposed to smoking. I have never smoked in my life, and I am totally opposed to tobacco products-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: -----but I think we are making a huge mistake-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: -----increasing the price incrementally all the time-----

Financial Resolution No. 1: Excise (1 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: -----because that is leading to an increase in the amount of illicit product coming into this State.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Broadcasting Sector (2 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 123. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she will give detailed and urgent consideration to the issues raised in correspondence from a national representative organisation (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39404/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 5. To ask the Minister for Health when additional resources will be provided for dental services in Cavan and Monaghan, to reduce waiting lists and ensure that dental services are provided in a timely manner, particularly for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39390/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: Unfortunately, we come across daily unacceptable delays in children getting dental treatment. Children should be screened in second, fourth and sixth classes. In Cavan at present, the children who are in the programme for sixth class have gone to second level before they actually see a dentist. It is a shortage of personnel. The local personnel are working extremely hard but they do not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister and acknowledge the substantial increase in resources he has got for his Department for the forthcoming year. I congratulate him on his work in the Department together with his Ministers of State. One area we need to address, which I acknowledge I did not specify in my question, is patients with disabilities and complex and additional needs. I am thinking particularly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I appreciate that. I know of the Minister's concern for children with complex and additional needs. I will read a communication that I saw from a parent of a child who got dental treatment. The parent wrote: I feel saddened that those with special needs and who may be non-verbal can often suffer in silence, distress and anxiety due to pain, sadly [my son] suffered for a while before we...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 50. To ask the Minister for Health if he will ensure that additional financial support is provided for healthcare services (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39420/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 184. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 447 of 28 June 2024, the progress to date in making this medication available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39528/24]

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I think he was married to a good Cavan woman.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: The Tánaiste would have heard me in this House and elsewhere, on numerous occasions, highlight the unacceptable delays in children with additional needs in Cavan and Monaghan getting an assessment of needs and, where necessary, follow-up therapies. I fully appreciate the substantial increase in funding for such services since 2020, but the bottom line is that services are far from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Cathaoirleach very much. Like him, I welcome the witnesses. I also wish to say how powerful the presentations were. I compliment all of the witnesses in that regard. I do not think any of us disagree with any element of the contributions they made. I listened to Ms O'Connor recently at a meeting of the North-South Inter-Parliamentary Association, as did the Cathaoirleach and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement: Women and Constitutional Change: Discussion (Resumed) (10 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: Safe Ireland is the umbrella body dealing with different groups that provide services for victims of domestic abuse. Is there good collaboration on an all-Ireland basis between the relevant statutory agencies, North and South? Ms Mitchell mentioned the cross-Border dimension to all of this, whether it is accessing services or the perpetrators of violence leaving one jurisdiction and being...