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Health (Miscellaneous Provisions) (No. 2) Bill 2022: Second Stage (1 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...and contraception measure that everyone in his Department is in favour of delivering on. I ask him to give it some attention. The delay in the continuation of the free GP care scheme is something we feel very deeply. The Labour Party brought this in when we were in the Government. We are very proud of it. Everyone likes it. Everyone remembers other stuff we did in Government but no...

Autism Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (29 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...away from the Government position so that it could not support it. We spent an awful lot of time working with parents, families and adults with autism to write a Bill that is deliverable. We feel we have done that. We came to the Chamber this morning on the understanding and with the belief that the Government was not opposing the Bill and that we would see it progress to Committee...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (16 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...poverty report brings home to us that not only are we facing a crisis, we are in the midst of an economic and social crisis in this country and we must use every tool in our economic arsenal. We feel we should have an emergency budget or an early budget. Failing that, we think there is scope for the Government to implement targeted measures similar to those that have been implemented in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Delays at Dublin Airport: Discussion (1 Jun 2022)

Duncan Smith: I will finish on this point. I thought I had a good understanding of the staff culture. This weekend has shifted it. I know it is a crisis weekend but we have a staff body who feel very low and very battered and bruised. This is my final question. There is no upward ask in terms of the number of security staff the DAA wants to hire. Is the DAA going to go higher now in terms of security...

Transport, Accelerating Sustainable Mobility: Statements (31 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...not applied to Expressway or Wexford Bus and unfortunately many students and low-paid workers use these services to get to college or their workplace, be it in the capital or their surrounds. They feel disenfranchised and excluded from this. The Government has trumpeted this as a massively good thing. It is good for those to whom it applies, but it does not apply equally and those...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...the Department will adequately enforce section 37a notices to ensure that every child who needs a place is granted one. An AsIAm report showed that one quarter of parents of children with autism feel that they do not have an appropriate school place. While we wait for a review, I also wish to ask the Minister whether the Special Educational Needs Act 2004, the EPSEN Act, will finally be...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...had to fight for educational access. Ryan and Kyle Milne have lost six years of schooling. Their mother, Gillian, said, "We've basically been punished for having children with special needs. You feel almost to blame. Did we not fight hard enough?" No parent should have to say those words. No parent should have to put themselves in that position of opening up their private lives just...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...with An Post, and now we have Dublin Bus. I loved to see Mr. Owens focus in his opening statement on continuing building the trust the people of Dublin have for this wonderful company, in which we feel invested and feel ownership of. I wish to raise a number of points. Obviously, this is a period of change in Dublin Bus. I am not sure if we will see him at this committee before he...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Bus Átha Cliath: Chairman Designate (18 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ..., it would be great. I am a big fan of BusConnects but it must be rolled out if it is going to dramatically improve public transport in Dublin. I am not making a political point but where I feel things fall down slightly is outside the M50. I represent Dublin Fingal. While there are some changes in BusConnects, it looks like north County Dublin will have a route and model very...

National Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (17 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...with the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, coming to briefings, to the Committee on Health and to the Dáil and just talking the clock and the days down until this moment. We wonder why people feel so cynical about politics and politicians and this has been thrown across the floor from Opposition to Government and from Government to Opposition. In recent months, I have been on...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (12 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: Does Deputy Donnelly feel he was the first Minister to ask for the advice of the Attorney General on this in all the nine years?

Accommodation Needs of Those Fleeing Ukraine: Statements (5 May 2022)

Duncan Smith: ..., as has the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, in terms of coming back to me, but that simple question cut to the heart of the day-to-day issues that many of us are trying to assist with and for which I feel there is a deficit in the response. The Fingal response forum is doing much good work but it does not have competencies in social protection, health, school transport and school...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (8 Mar 2022)

Duncan Smith: We absolutely cannot condone it but believe it is a reflection of the anger many people are feeling. Has the Taoiseach asked the Russians why they need so many people working in their embassy in Ireland given our lack of cultural and economic links? What level of contact has there been with the UK on the taking in of refugees? Let me refer to what is needed practically. I was contacted...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...that they are the ones who have been doing the work here in the Dáil and at committees on health related matters. I am very conscious of how we discuss this phase of Covid. We do all have a feeling of optimism about where we are going on this. The public health advice is encouraging and positive but we still have Covid wards. We still have 692 people in hospital and there are...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...out there. We need to get to the root of the problem. We need real answers to parliamentary questions. We need honesty from the Government and once we have that, we can look at the reasons. We feel we know the reasons but where are the numbers? Where are our graduates going? How many people are leaving midstream? How many are leaving because they are not getting the promotions they...

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...electrification programme and getting a telephone into every house but all those companies, be it ESB or Telecom Éireann, were State companies in it for the long haul at the time. I do not in my gut feel that this crowd are in it for the long haul.

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (15 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...or other qualifying) payment.". The measure that allows the pandemic unemployment payment, PUP, to be a determining factor when entering the back to education allowance scheme is welcome but we feel strongly that this should be expanded to include all those who, unfortunately, had to claim the PUP and who are seeking financial support to continue studies. This mainly affects those who...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (8 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...amendments that we will be supporting and there are other amendments that we will not. I hope that the Minister can answer my question during the course of this evening. Regardless of how one feels about this legislation or its sister legislation, we can all agree that, legislatively speaking, this is not the best way to tackle Covid in the months and, dare I say it, years ahead....

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...to private health insurance, namely, a public health system in which people have so much confidence and that has such ease of access in terms of cost across many different aspects of healthcare that we feel we do not need private health insurance. That is a huge offer of faith in terms of a health policy. Most people are behind Sláintecare, or say they are, but even if it is...