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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 376. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all documents and data on serving and retired personnel is held in digitised or paper form; if this is GDPR compliant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29672/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 377. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the expenditure on Defence Forces food in 2019 and 2020; the starting income and other allowances for Defence Forces chefs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29673/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 378. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the current and capital funding dedicated to the Army Ranger Wing and Naval Service divers in 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29674/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 379. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of purchasing petrol and diesel for Defence Forces vehicles in 2019 and 2020; the number of electric vehicles; the number of electric vehicle charging points in Defence Forces installations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29675/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 380. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the estimated cost of providing tech pay to defence personnel in the CIS corps in 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29676/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 381. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there will be a recruitment competition aimed at attracting skillsets such as cyber security, statisticians and data analysts in the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29677/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 382. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of courses cancelled or postponed in 2020 and to date in 2021 due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29679/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 383. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of Permanent Defence Forces personnel who have applied to re-enlist to date; the number reinducted by rank; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29680/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 384. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the status of all Naval Service ships currently not at sea; the reason they are not at sea; when they will be ready to be deployed once again; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29681/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 426. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available to a student with severe colour vision deficiency to assist with their junior certificate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29667/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: 427. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the assistance available to a student with severe colour vision deficiency to assist with their junior certificate; if the severity of their colour deficiency is taken into account; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29668/21]

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

Duncan Smith: To follow on from that point, in his reply, the Minister said that he felt the amendment is too prescriptive. Deputy Ó Broin mentioned that transport has really been the preserve of engineers. This could have been very prescriptive. The proposers of the amendment could have gone into gradients and all the rest. This is actually pretty standard. We need to acknowledge that, at least...

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

Duncan Smith: The definitions of affordability are vitally important. The suite of housing Bills the Minister is bringing forward are intertwined, including the Land Development Agency Bill and the Affordable Housing Bill. This suite is a market discount Bill, as our housing spokesperson, Senator Moynihan, has said. Linking affordability to income is vital. It has been said in previous contributions....

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

Duncan Smith: I move amendment No. 48: In page 9, between lines 32 and 33, to insert the following: “ “cost rental dwellings” means dwellings, the rent for which is to be calculated so that it covers only the cost of building (not including the cost of site provision but including the cost of any loans), managing and maintaining the dwellings;”. This amendment is another...

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

Duncan Smith: I will press my amendment. I wish to advise that I will not call a vote on any of my amendments that are in my name only because I cannot vote on them myself.

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

Duncan Smith: I move amendment No. 51: In page 10, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “(3) Notwithstanding subsection (1), the following shall not be relevant public land for the purposes of this Act: (a) any land that is being managed, maintained or developed as a nature reserve or a national park by the National Parks and Wildlife Service of the Department of Housing, Heritage...

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

Duncan Smith: No.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 113. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the additional resources being sought to tackle the driver theory waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28890/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Test (27 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 114. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the timescale for clearing the backlog on the driver theory waiting list; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28891/21]

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: This is why I do not envy the Minister his task. A recurring theme of this pandemic has been what we just heard. I get what Deputy Daly says. When one takes issues in isolation, for instance, if such and such happened, one asks what is the risk of that, but when we were in the teeth of the worst waves, it was not necessarily the act of going for a run with a few people in the park that was...