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Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Remuneration (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 165. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost implications of excluding wages paid to reservists from income tax for 2019 and 2020; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30700/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 166. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the cost of establishing two Naval Service crews for each ship; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30701/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Reserve (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 167. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to modernise the public sector circular 51 of 1978, which provides reservists leave for training with the Defence Forces but does not provide cover for other situations such as aid to civil power; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30702/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Properties (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 168. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his plans to invest in accommodation to be provided to military families to ease the financial burdens on them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30703/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Operations (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 169. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the strength of the Defence Forces and Reserve Defence Forces CIS units; the established strength of each; his plans to enhance cybersecurity protections; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30704/20]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (15 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 170. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if all members of the Army, Naval Service and Air Corps are provided with a Defence Forces email address upon joining to facilitate easier communication throughout the organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30705/20]

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 7: General (Resumed) (14 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: As the Minister for Justice and Equality is in the Chamber, I would like to start by welcoming the €3 billion increase in funding for the justice portfolio. The Minister has said she looks forward to dedicating some of those resources to tackling domestic, sexual and gender-based violence. I look forward to getting more information in the coming days and weeks on how the Minister...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Schemes (14 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 116. To ask the Minister for Finance if a large-scale scrappage scheme for petrol and diesel cars will be introduced in view of the plans to ban the sale of petrol and diesel cars from 2030. [30388/20]

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

Duncan Smith: I thank the witnesses for their testimony and submissions and the work they have done in recent weeks and months. This discussion is, to some extent, a continuation of the work done over the summer by the Special Committee on Covid-19 Response. It is unfortunate that we always seem to have the aviation industry before us when domestic pressures arising from Covid are moving in a particular...

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: Aviation Sector: Discussion (14 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: I am not sure if such an individual will be available, but perhaps we could find someone involved in a testing regime at a European airport.

Financial Resolution No. 2: Excise - Mineral Oil Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: This is a pill. As Deputy Howlin said earlier, this had to come in line with the other measures recommended by the Joint Committee on Climate Action. If there is any low-hanging fruit in cutting our carbon emissions it is retrofitting houses. This has sadly been left far behind in this budget. Our houses have the highest carbon emissions in Europe, at 60% above the European average....

Financial Resolutions 2020 - Financial Resolution No. 1: Tobacco Products Tax (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: The Labour Party will not be opposing this resolution. At what point is the benefit of the revenue raised by duties on tobacco outweighed by the increase in counterfeit tobacco, with effects on public health, criminality and all the rest? Is that discussion taking place within any Departments? We probably need to start thinking about that when it comes to this particular old reliable.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Tests (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 51. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of meetings that have taken place since 1 August 2020 with the Dublin Airport Authority on the provision of an airport testing regime; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29775/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 94. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial support measures planned if Ireland needs to go to a Plan for Living with Covid-19 level 4 designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29771/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Covid-19 Pandemic Supports (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 95. To ask the Minister for Finance the financial support measures planned if Ireland needs to go to a Plan for Living with Covid-19 level 5 designation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29772/20]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 108. To ask the Minister for Finance if an employer remains eligible to recoup the maximum allowable weekly subsidy for an individual employee based on their average revenue net weekly pay, ARNWP, for January and February 2020 as referred to in the Revenue Commissioners’ guidelines on the temporary wage subsidy scheme if the employee had since been subjected to a short-time working...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Wage Subsidy Scheme (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 109. To ask the Minister for Finance if the Revenue Commissioners will seek to recoup an overpayment of subsidy in the case of an employee who has been placed on a short-time working week and is in receipt of Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection benefits and their net pay for each remaining day of paid employment during the week exceeded one fifth of their ARNWP; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 127. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the advice and rules given to gym operators during the Covid-19 pandemic regarding their opening; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29877/20]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Assistance Payment (13 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: 157. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to change the HAP scheme; and his plans to change the level of support for each county to allow inter county HAP applications to be successful. [29812/20]