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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: The Minister's Government allocated €1 billion to Irish Water for non-domestic projects for next year's budget. Can the Minister indicate how much of that money would go towards projects that are caught in the Irish Water system already which are non-domestic related? I am thinking specifically of the pumping station upgrade works that are needed in Portmarnock. There is a huge...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 11. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on negotiations to increase fees for dispensing for pharmacists; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39357/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: There are ongoing negotiations on fees for pharmacy dispensing. In the context of the budget and the recent announcement, I am seeking an update on those negotiations and where they are going.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: I agree with the Minister that pharmacists are all of those things. I am sure he will agree that they are also highly trusted in the community. The great potential of unlocking more community care that is in situ and close to where people live is an aim of both the Minister and me. The funding allocation is welcome but now the negotiation fee must be addressed. Before the financial...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Pharmacy Services (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: A lot of the discussion among pharmacists concerns the volume of administration and paper-based work they must do. We had a debate last week – I brought this issue up in my budget discussions - about the move towards electronic health records and, more generally, towards an e-health model. We need to see that in the pharmacy sector as well. Pharmacists operate in a private retail...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 15. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to develop a new national policy on palliative care for children with life-limiting conditions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38831/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 17. To ask the Minister for Health if he will commit that there will be no further delays to the delivery of the national children's hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39356/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Facilities (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 23. To ask the Minister for Health to outline his plans to increase the capacity of the accident and emergency department, resuscitation area and intensive care unit at Beaumont Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39355/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (3 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 38. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to include the varicella or chickenpox vaccine in the childhood immunisation scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39358/24]

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (2 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 88. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment when the additional quota of 500 visas for home carers that were due to be released on 2 September 2024 will be approved and made available; if he is aware that a number of organisations providing home care have appointments pending the approval of these visas, and that the delay is putting additional pressures on services and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations (2 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 91. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills her plans to introduce extra time in second-level examinations for students with dyslexia, dyscalculia and other learning difficulties; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39208/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (2 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 141. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason for the delay in a disability allowance payment to a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39199/24]

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: We have never had soft landings before. The way the Government is setting this country up means we will fall hard, maybe harder than we have ever fallen in the past. I will leave that there as I am running out of time. The Government is really playing fast and loose with our finances and with the country's economy. This budget is not as glossy, as shiny or as helpful to the ordinary...

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: On behalf of the Labour Party, on a day when we discuss and debate, and scrabble over the many billions of euro we have in this country, our thoughts are with the innocents in Lebanon and Gaza and throughout the Middle East who are living in fear under a hail of drone, rocket and artillery fire as that war not only continues but escalates.

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: The Government has done a remarkable job trying to frame this budget as a budget that has no losers and only winners, that it is a budget that will benefit everyone, particularly children and families. If we look beyond our shores economically, we can see that the three largest economies in Europe, namely, Germany, France and the UK, are facing gloomy economic predictions of varying degrees....

Financial Resolutions 2024 - Budget Statement 2025 (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: It is needed to help build, to help care, to help teach and to help deliver a public service. Today, in our health service and hospitals there are 576 people on trolleys. Our trolley count is a crude, but powerful, indicator of the health of our health service, and 576 people on trolleys on the first day of October is a near record for the first day of this month. We need new staff but...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 388. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth when a crèche (details supplied) will open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38690/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (1 Oct 2024)

Duncan Smith: 403. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the measures he is taking to ensure that providers are remaining in the core funding model (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38830/24]

Health Information Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (25 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: We welcome this Bill, which is very long overdue and the purpose of which is to provide, among other things, a legal basis for the development and deployment of digital health records. The Minister admitted that we have lagged significantly behind the rest of Europe on this. The reality is that our people have not been getting the best care they could due to the paper-based nature of our...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: 110. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE reconstructive plastic surgeons based at St James's Hospital in 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [38062/24]