Results 1-20 of 101 for feel "party:" . (isset($parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")]) ? $parties[ucfirst("$a[1]")] : "$a[1]") speaker:Duncan Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Industrial Disputes (1 Jun 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...With morale low, the increase in demand and pressures on staff in the public health system, and the stubbornly high levels of vacancy, it is understandable how demoralised these staff continue to feel. Negotiations have been ongoing and there was a degree of positivity to those negotiations. These workers are not feeling it in terms of full laboratories, full complements of staff nor in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: Turning to the representatives of the DAA, is that accurate? Do they feel that Aer Lingus, as a major stakeholder in Dublin Airport, was saying that late last year? Did the representatives of the DAA have a different view as to how aviation was going to recover? Do they feel that Aer Lingus was prepared and that the DAA was not?

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

Duncan Smith: ...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 initial answer. We...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Affecting the Aviation Sector: Discussion (27 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...in its submission, the IAA states that it covers all aspects of aviation safety. From a passenger point of view, Covid is the main safety aspect at the moment. Speaking personally, I would not feel safe travelling now. If there was a testing regime, be it pre-departure or on arrival, I would feel safe. I believe that is representative of the majority view across the country. What...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (17 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: There is a difficult balancing act to strike at this time - there is no doubt about that - but we feel that balance is not being struck at the moment, in particular in terms of the standing request for a third debate on Covid, which the Labour Party made prior to Christmas and has made every week since, and the increasing need for Taoiseach's questions. We do not vote against the Order of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...with representatives of the DAA and others involved in the aviation industry, it was stated that they did not see this level of demand returning and that no one foresaw this. Did Aer Lingus feel it was a lone voice late last summer and over the winter in foreseeing that aviation was going to rebound? What were its meetings with other stakeholders in the aviation industry like? Do the...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...poverty report brings home to us that not only are we facing a crisis, we are in the midst of an economic and social crisis in this country and we must use every tool in our economic arsenal. We feel we should have an emergency budget or an early budget. Failing that, we think there is scope for the Government to implement targeted measures similar to those that have been implemented in...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...has been a huge breach of trust and there is a collapse in trust in the communities there. All local and statutory bodies need to be out in the communities speaking with the residents because they feel they are being ignored and are being given the runaround. They feel that they are not being told the truth about what their lives are going to be like in the coming months and years ahead.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...page. I do not agree with having a separate transport police or the private outsourcing of security. I do not like the level of security on the Luas because it adds to the degree to which people feel unsafe. Rather than increasing security measures on public transport, I would rather see traditional staffing levels improved across our public transport system in line with a stronger,...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Departmental Meetings (18 Jan 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...the appointment of the HSE clinical lead, while the groups are obviously aware that they have no formal role in such an appointment, given that this is a small and vulnerable group of people, they feel that engagement regarding that role or position would be important. This community has insights in terms of who provides the specialist care and who would give confidence in the provision...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...out of the equation. The value of land is the fundamental issue as to why house prices are the way they are. It feeds into the cost of everything related to that. That is where this amendment is coming from. We feel that if the Land Development Agency Bill is to work it will require amendments such as this. This amendment will ensure that, when proposals are brought by the Land...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Duncan Smith: I am very satisfied with those answers. If there is time left, the witnesses should feel free to add anything they so wish.

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: I feel like I have walked into a Cork North-Central public meeting.

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: Does Deputy Donnelly feel he was the first Minister to ask for the advice of the Attorney General on this in all the nine years?

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...who are unable to fulfil their potential, to live their lives in security or to achieve what they deserve to achieve. People see reports about Ireland's booming economy and bulging surpluses but feel completely disconnected from them. They feel left behind, disenfranchised and marginalised. That is my experience. It is what I and my Labour Party colleagues are seeing in our...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: I do not have much to add but this is the issue. It knits everything together in the aviation sector, from the travel agents to the airlines. It will keep workers in work. At the moment, I feel safer having someone from Italy, who has availed of a testing regime in an Italian airport, than someone from my home city of Dublin visit my house given the level of community transmission. That is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: How did Ms Gubbins feel when she saw that? I was at the vast majority of those public consultations. We were intimately familiar with the noise contours and they basically went east to west, with the waves either side, but they did not go that way. Would Ms Gubbins accept there is a huge breach of trust with the residents of those communities that will be very hard to repair because of...

Ceisteanna (Atógáil) - Questions (Resumed): Cabinet Committees (22 Jul 2020)

Duncan Smith: In fairness, Deputy Boyd Barrett was very confident in his delivery and all that, but what he is saying is spot on and it is exactly how I feel and how I think Deputy McDonald and others in this House feel. There is an issue with using the wording "green light". Green means go, as I said on the radio yesterday morning, and it was a political decision to give implicit permission in this...