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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Allowances (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 352. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if there are allowances for reservists to travel to training or courses; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5693/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 353. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if operational requirements have been postponed or cancelled due to Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5694/21]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Recruitment (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 354. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the measures being taken to specifically attract and recruit information technology personnel from the private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5695/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Disability Allowance (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 447. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the position regarding a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [5808/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 709. To ask the Minister for Health the locations of the mass Covid-19 vaccination centres in Dublin and the surrounding counties of Wicklow, Kildare, Meath and Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5347/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 710. To ask the Minister for Health the number of mass Covid-19 vaccination centres that will be located in Dublin and the surrounding counties of Wicklow, Kildare, Meath and Louth; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5348/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 900. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons who arrived in Ireland in each week of January 2021 who did not have a PCR test 72 hours before departure; the number of completed passenger locator forms; the number who received a follow-up call and the nature of the follow-up; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5984/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Tests (3 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 901. To ask the Minister for Health if persons arriving at airports and ports here will be subject to a Covid-19 PCR test; if there will be a five-day follow-up PCR test; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5985/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Motor Tax (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 132. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 25 of 17 November 2020, the plans his Department has to provide for an appeals process within the motor tax legislation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3961/21]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Coastal Erosion (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 254. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the number of hard defence schemes that have been approved by his Department in respect of coastal erosion throughout the country during the past 20 years; the details of such schemes approved; the amount of funding provided; if such schemes have been located in areas classified as special areas of conservation under the EU Habitats...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Homeless Persons Supports (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 496. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the protocol that exists within her Department to enable homeless persons to be aware of and receive a basic weekly payment; her plans to improve its effectiveness in order that everyone is cherished equally; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3667/21]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (27 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 500. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a person (details supplied) is entitled to a pension from her Department given contributions paid prior to their emigration to the UK. [3782/21]

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: I will ask questions back and forth of the Minister, if he will allow me. As of 13 January, 69,700 front-line healthcare workers had received a vaccine, according to the HSE's figures. The Minister stated, however, that as of Sunday next, 24 January, a target of 140,000 will have been reached, split more or less evenly between healthcare workers and people in nursing homes and their staff....

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: I raise that issue because we are at an important juncture in the vaccine roll-out. It is early, but confidence has been shaken by the incidents spoken about earlier. The first guiding principle of the sequencing document is transparency and practicality. Transparency is really important. The Minister and the HSE need to get this right now, to fix the mistakes and get confidence going....

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: That would be most helpful. The indicative dates for everyone else in all those groups - October, November or whenever it may be - such as meat plant workers, other healthcare workers, dentists and retail workers, may shift and change based on supply but, again, transparency and communication will help. My worry is that if the Government goes wrong here, resentment will breed and we will...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: Will the data be published?

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: Before asking my questions, I wish to say that my thoughts today are with the victims and survivors who passed through our mother and baby homes. I will speak and leave the Minister with a few questions. The first matter of two that I wish to focus on is that of travel. The Minister knows how strongly I felt about a proper regime of testing and follow-up contacts in respect of people...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 131. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there are future plans to use the trainline in Duleek, east County Meath, which is currently in use by a company (details supplied) on the old Navan to Drogheda line for commuter purposes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44831/20]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: 798. To ask the Minister for Health the plans his Department and the HSE have with regard to licensing the drug dupilumab for use by patients with severe eczema in Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44840/20]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Establishment (17 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to alleviate the lack of secondary school places in the Malahide and Portmarnock areas of County Dublin; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44209/20]