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Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...has been a huge breach of trust and there is a collapse in trust in the communities there. All local and statutory bodies need to be out in the communities speaking with the residents because they feel they are being ignored and are being given the runaround. They feel that they are not being told the truth about what their lives are going to be like in the coming months and years ahead.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: How did Ms Gubbins feel when she saw that? I was at the vast majority of those public consultations. We were intimately familiar with the noise contours and they basically went east to west, with the waves either side, but they did not go that way. Would Ms Gubbins accept there is a huge breach of trust with the residents of those communities that will be very hard to repair because of...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...Department of Health is having to do more work on that going into January. That is understandable and a good thing. I am conscious of the pressure the Department is under but this is something we feel must be brought forward as early as possible. The work of the national drugs strategy that would complement the health-led approach to drug use and, ultimately, decriminalisation of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...not want to. Is the friction that continues to exist between the DAA and Ryanair resolvable? Surely it is not good for Ireland? It cannot always be just about airport charges all the time. It feels like this is going on for decades, since I was in my teens, with Ryanair versus DAA. These are two good news stories, if you want to look at it in a purely economic perspective, but there...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Ryanair (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...this year. In a subsequent contribution, Mr. O'Leary said they would be suboptimal by 2023. How can we get the balance between a lower-cost airport equalling a poorer customer experience? I feel that the success of Ryanair particularly in driving lower-cost fares has fed into lower-cost airports, which is ultimately a bad thing because the experience in airports of poor toilet...

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...in my constituency, be it a big project such as MetroLink or a small one such as the coastal greenway, which people have been wanting and know have been needed for years but, ultimately, they feel that the projects will not happen because they have been let down so often. However, we cannot allow the city of Galway and, indeed, our western seaboard to continue to be let down. We need...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...Accounts and the Dáil. We have spokespeople who can be contacted directly. We have plenty of opportunities for TII to come to us and say "we know we are in a cost-of-living crisis but these companies feel they need to raise that" and to let us interrogate that. I do not believe they need to raise tolls. The Tánaiste said today that he is not happy with it, that it caught him...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...traditional stationmasters as well as workers present on platforms, who have authority by virtue of being public transport workers, it would go a long way towards increasing security so people can feel safe on our public transport system. We used to have inspectors on Dublin Bus. We need to go back to a system where we have inspectors. They are not there to throw their weight around but...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Public Transport (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...page. I do not agree with having a separate transport police or the private outsourcing of security. I do not like the level of security on the Luas because it adds to the degree to which people feel unsafe. Rather than increasing security measures on public transport, I would rather see traditional staffing levels improved across our public transport system in line with a stronger,...

Long Covid Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (9 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...is the failure to recruit and retain healthcare professionals throughout our health service. As we move towards the end of 2022 and into 2023, the people who are suffering long Covid are increasingly feeling forgotten by our health service and political class. That is why it is important we are discussing this issue. A related issue, which I have raised with the Minister...

Home Care: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: .... A few weeks ago I was going door-to-door and came across a woman who had just come home and was getting out of her car in her driveway and was taking a moment to compose herself. I had that feeling with which we are all familiar of trying to deliver a leaflet and wondering what to do. She took the leaflet, called me back and asked me to come in. She had come from providing a couple...

Public Transport: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...having a running fight. The video is 20 or 30 seconds long. It is another in a long line of videos that are quite disturbing and show a level of violence that would make anyone in the vicinity feel very frightened. I saw one of the videos was shot from a bus. People who were on public transport would have felt paralysed and, if these people had forced their way onto the bus, they would...

Disability Services: Motion [Private Members] (11 Oct 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...we are training and then retaining in our services one, three, five or ten years later. That is vitally important because the CDNT issue is so big. The 28% figure we have for vacancies not filled feels like it is higher in respect of service delivery and in the lack of service delivery. In my experience, service users have been devolved from existing services - which may not have been...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...who are unable to fulfil their potential, to live their lives in security or to achieve what they deserve to achieve. People see reports about Ireland's booming economy and bulging surpluses but feel completely disconnected from them. They feel left behind, disenfranchised and marginalised. That is my experience. It is what I and my Labour Party colleagues are seeing in our...

Financial Resolutions 2022 - Budget Statement 2023 (27 Sep 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...of years and the crises we have all faced in health, the permanent cost-of-living crisis and the never-ending housing emergency, people are in desperate need of some hope. Yet, the overwhelming feeling that I and my colleagues in the Labour Party get is one of helplessness and despondency. There is a feeling that while some measures announced in the budget may help people tread water for...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...with representatives of the DAA and others involved in the aviation industry, it was stated that they did not see this level of demand returning and that no one foresaw this. Did Aer Lingus feel it was a lone voice late last summer and over the winter in foreseeing that aviation was going to rebound? What were its meetings with other stakeholders in the aviation industry like? Do the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: Turning to the representatives of the DAA, is that accurate? Do they feel that Aer Lingus, as a major stakeholder in Dublin Airport, was saying that late last year? Did the representatives of the DAA have a different view as to how aviation was going to recover? Do they feel that Aer Lingus was prepared and that the DAA was not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Strategy: Discussion (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...and throughout the country, and particularly in housing estates that were built less than 20 years ago, homes would have no front gardens but would have parking bays at the front. Many people feel excluded from getting on board with EVs. They have the money for the EVs but they cannot charge them. Is that being teased out - the bridging of what is essentially the width of a path - in...