Results 61-80 of 188 for speaker:Duncan Smith

Europe Day: Statements (7 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: Europe Day celebrates peace and unity in Europe, but as we know and are witnessing there is no peace in Gaza and the occupied territories at this moment. This is a huge responsibility and weakness in the foreign policy of the European Union and how it operates in its neighbourhood. It is now more than 50 days since any food or medicine has been allowed into Gaza. Europe, with a few...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Official Engagements (7 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: 18. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade to provide a list of the attendees at the Government Trade Forum, chaired by him on 28 April 2025; to provide a list of all those invited; to provide a list of attendees from meetings on 4 April, 21 March and 26 February; to provide copies of any documents, minutes or agendas circulated in advance of, or after, the four meetings to date;...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (7 May 2025)

Duncan Smith: 244. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to confirm that local authorities are now in a position to allocate funding for the tenant-in-situ scheme, as previously stated (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22097/25]

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: I for one do not doubt the Minister of State's personal bona fides in terms of his approach to this role, the success of which everyone in the Gallery and beyond wants to see. If the Minister of State is successful, it will improve the lives of families and children that need special education. However, one of the first acts that the Minister of State could do today is to encourage the...

Special Education: Motion [Private Members] (30 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: It is not insulting to us as such, but to the families, the parents, the SNAs and the activists in the Gallery, outside and throughout the country. It is insulting to the 126 children who are without a school place now, one of whom, Frankie Edgeworth in my constituency, has been refused 83 different forms of education from preschool to primary school. He is six years of age and severely...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Enrolments (30 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 69. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide assurances that an individual (details supplied) will receive an offer of a school place for September 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [21340/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: The proposal for a so-called housing tsar will be one of the most egregious of this Government. The details in the programme for Government stated it would be under the Minister for housing but it is emerging that the pay would come from the Department of Finance. We are still unclear as to the remit or powers this new, well-remunerated role will have. As the Government dragged its heels...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 175. To ask the Taoiseach the reason subsistence allowance was removed from a group of persons working with the Central Statistics Office (details supplied); and if a circular exists detailing the reason it was removed will be provided. [19370/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 186. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the allocations of €1.5 million to OCHA and UNHCR respectively are the same as those included in Parliamentary Question No. 175 of 3 April 2025; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19016/25]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Humanitarian Aid (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 199. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if, due to the challenges to the distribution of aid in Burma-Myanmar posed by the military junta, any measures are being taken to ensure the aid being provided will reach the people most in need of assistance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19017/25]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Parking Provision (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 382. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide clarity on the delivery of a multi-storey car park at Portmarnock train station; the reason the project has not been advanced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19008/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 826. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she is aware of the lack of education provision in Donabate (details supplied) for children with ASD; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19021/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1420. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the financial supports that exist for self-employed people who pay PRSI class S who are diagnosed with a serious illness such as cancer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1421. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the criteria for the invalidity pension; the length of time the applicant must be out of work to apply; the period of absence by which will be out of work to apply; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19496/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Family Law Cases (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1544. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will provide an update on the provision of promised reforms in relation to parental alienation as promised by the Minister in 2024, and based from a Department report in 2023 which cited the concept of parental alienation as highly controversial; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19015/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1821. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the supports available to a Ukrainian family (details supplied) in desperate need of accommodation; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19076/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1917. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth her Department’s plans to increase creche places in Fingal, specifically in Portmarnock, Donabate and Swords; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [20495/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Hospital Investigations (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 2026. To ask the Minister for Health to clarify the extent to which parents who declined surgery were included in the CHI audit on hip dysplasia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [18830/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Vaccination Programme (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 2070. To ask the Minister for Health if she will consider rolling out the shingles vaccine through the national immunisation programme, as is commonplace in other countries; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19123/25]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Medicinal Products (29 Apr 2025)

Duncan Smith: 2071. To ask the Minister for Health if she will approve of and provide funding for the combination treatment of ibrutinib and venetoclax for the treatment of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [19124/25]