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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (12 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 149. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a placement will be secured for a person (details supplied) at a school. [24737/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (12 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 255. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists registered and operating in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24855/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (12 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 256. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists signed up to the dental treatment service scheme as at 30 April 2021 in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24856/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (12 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 257. To ask the Minister for Health the number of dentists that have withdrawn from the dental treatment service scheme since January 2020 in CHO9; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24857/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 535. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if guidance can be offered to those in receipt of the disability allowance and other benefits in relation to whether they can apply for the arts and disability connect funding without an award for such funding impacting their social welfare benefit entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23843/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (11 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 536. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if guidance can be provided to artists with disabilities that plan to apply for the arts and disability connect funding in relation to whether an award for such funding will not impact on their social welfare benefit entitlements; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23844/21]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (Repeal of Part V Leasing) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: We are supporting the Bill. I thank Deputy Cian O'Callagan and his team for their work on this matter. The provision of social housing stock by way of Part V acquisition should never have been allowed to become another cushy deal for developers but, unfortunately, it has. Local authorities and the Government must ensure social housing is provided in the most sustainable, efficient and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Policy (6 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 102. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the reason a student who has medical confirmation of health issues including extreme anxiety and as a result of said health issues has missed a lot of school cannot apply for an exemption from Irish on health grounds (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23443/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: Second-hand homes are being snapped up as well.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: Young people with families who are looking to buy a home are absolutely furious over the increasing number of homes being snapped up by outside investment funds and REITs, or so-called cuckoo funds. Fianna Fáil campaigned very strongly in 2019, in advance of the general election, to clamp down on cuckoo funds. The Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage, Deputy Darragh...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: I want to raise with the Taoiseach the just transition. There has been strong, understandable and righteous criticism of the weakness of references to a just transition in the draft climate Bill. We hope we can amend and strengthen that on Committee and subsequent Stages. There is little faith that it will be strengthened. I want to highlight what happened in Lough Boora last week. A...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: It was with much disappointment that on the Monday of the workers' bank holiday, we awoke to reports the National Transport Authority, NTA, plans a further tendering of four Bus Éireann routes, namely the 101, the 101X - the Drogheda to Dublin service, the 133 and the 131 between Dublin and Wicklow. Is this a policy the Government supports? Is it commensurate with its commitment in the...

Private Rental Sector: Motion [Private Members] (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for tabling the motion, which the Labour Party will be supporting. In its amendment to the motion, the Government states it will tackle issues facing renters while "ensuring equity and fairness for landlords and tenants", before going on to state that the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage will, at some unidentified point in the future, "bring forward...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 147. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has made an assessment on the likely impact on Ireland’s emissions profile of his decision to include the impact of wetlands in national and sectoral greenhouse gas emissions reporting as outlined in his statement of 21 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22895/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 148. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if his Department has assessed the likely impact on Ireland’s greenhouse emissions profile of the inclusion of net land use emissions in the new EU land use accounting system as outlined in his statement on 21 January 2021; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22896/21]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: EU Directives (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 149. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the nature of the letter of formal notice the European Commission sent to the Government as announced on 2 July 2020 with regard to the alleged non-compliance of the European Communities (Environmental Liability) Regulations 2008, S.I. No. 547 of 2008, with Article 12(1) of the Environmental Liability Directive...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Legislative Measures (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 196. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the status of the passage into law of the forthcoming road traffic (miscellaneous provisions) Bill to tackle the misuse of scramblers and other off-road bikes and machines in public places and on public roads; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23142/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Rental Sector (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 294. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of eviction notices served from March to December 2020 and from 1 January to 27 April 2021. [22995/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Issues (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 295. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the steps he has taken since entering Government to prevent so called cuckoo funds buying entire housing developments; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22996/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: 352. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number of commissioned Army Reserve and Naval Service Reserve officers by rank that were classified as inactive in each of the years since the reorganisation in 2013 to the latest date for which information is available; and the number classified active that are serving without appointments. [22902/21]