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Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Assisted Decision-Making (5 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 457. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if the decision support service which was established under the Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) Act 2015 to provide an essential service for persons who face difficulties exercising their decision-making capacity will come into effect before Dáil Éireann rises for the summer recess; and if he will...

Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: The Labour Party welcomes the provisions in this Bill both in the area of inpatient charges for children under 16 years of age and in the measure the Minister will introduce in an amendment with regard to contraception services. That is an especially progressive measure and will make a real difference. It is an early step in what will be, should the action plan on women's health be...

Education (Provision in Respect of Children with Special Educational Needs) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: It is good to see this Bill coming before the House, although it is a shame it is happening on 1 July amid a bundle of other legislation that is coming through the House at breakneck speed as we rattle towards the Dáil recess. I accept what the Minister of State said about amendments. We have two amendments that will be submitted in the name of Deputy Ó Ríordáin that I...

Assisted Decision-Making (Capacity) (Amendment) Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: I move amendment No. 3: In page 6, after line 34, to insert the following: “(2) A court shall construe this Act in a manner that gives effect to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities done at New York on 13 December 2006, and for this purpose the court shall have regard to the provisions of the Convention, including its preamble.”. Now that Ireland has...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: I am very disappointed in the Minister's script. While he did not read these words out, his script states: "It is for these reasons that the Government will not oppose, but can neither support at this time, the Autism Bill 2022." We did not pitch this Bill to be two or three steps away from the Government position so that it could not support it. We spent an awful lot of time working with...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 190. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the pass rate for driving tests across the country broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34005/22]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 191. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the first-time pass rate for driving tests across the country broken down by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34006/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 246. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has been in communications since 2021 with the Minister for Health in relation to the unprecedented and very high-density urban seagull colonies identified in the National Urban Gull Survey published in September 2021 as occupying several large towns and urban areas and the interests of public health and safety in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 289. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government further to Parliamentary Question No. 604 of 27 July 2021, the reason that his Department has failed for almost a year despite an undertaking by his Department to provide a comprehensive response to the question (details supplied); and the date by which his Department will provide a comprehensive response to this Deputy....

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 290. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the evidence that was considered, accepted and rejected including the reason for rejection by his Department in respect of each wild bird species that was listed for control in the extended declarations for protection of public health or safety and air safety; and the origin and age of all such evidence with regard to his...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 291. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will provide with a copy of the briefing notes and recommendations given to him by his Department in respect of the three-month extension of the general State wide 2021-2022 derogation declarations announced on 30 April 2022; and if he will provide the full details of the reason for his decision to merely extend them...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 292. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he and his Department took full account of the extremely concerning results of its National Urban Gull Survey as published in September 2021 with regard to his decision on 30 April 2022 to extend, unaltered the general State-wide 2021-2022 derogation declaration for the protection of public health or safety for three...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 293. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the reason for extension of the general State-wide 2021-2022 derogation declarations for wild bird species control in the interests of public health and safety. [34527/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether there is an important, serious material difference between the legally impugned per expert legal advice as sourced by and provided to his Department (details supplied) with serious implications for communities severely impacted by high-density urban seagull colonies; if not, the reason the primary...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Wildlife Regulations (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether that by merely extending the general 2021-2022 derogation declarations for three months to 31 July 2022, that he and his Department have once again, for a sixth urban gull breeding season since the partial 2017 Balbriggan public safety only pilot derogation, continued to deny protection of the legitimate...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Ukraine War (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 254. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for the old HSE house on the New Road, Donabate which is adjacent to a hotel (details supplied) and is unused and boarded up; if he will give consideration to the upgrading of the property to facilitate housing Ukrainians who fled the war; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33684/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 285. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the discussions that have taken place with the HSE and Fingal County Council regarding the old St. Ita’s Hospital site buildings and grounds; if he will provide details of the plans for this site and buildings including cost, and the timeline for delivery of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34500/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 286. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if the scope of the enquiry by a person (details supplied) into the operation of An Bord Pleanála has been widened; the reason for same; the reason for the five-week extension into the publishing of this enquiry which was announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34501/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Water Quality (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 296. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the Environmental Protection Agency for the second year running, has condemned the water quality of the front strand of Balbriggan beach as unfit for swimming, citing faecal contamination from birds (details supplied); and the timeline and a list of prioritised actions that he...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (28 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: 297. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his views on whether the recent completion by Irish Water in partnership with Dublin City Council of the major five-year long infrastructure project to cover the treated water reservoirs at Stillorgan in order to finally eliminate long-standing risks of contamination for example cryptosporidium and antimicrobial resistant...