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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...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: Even compared to this morning's debate, right now feels like a very sad time. The people that have been on to me this afternoon, particularly in the past hour and a half, are angry but also disconsolate and sad about where we are going with this virus. They have known for a number of weeks that we have been heading towards restrictions. The figures have been too high in respect of case...

Health (Pricing and Supply of Medical Goods) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (3 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: I feel like I have walked into a Cork North-Central public meeting.

Health (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (2 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...current circumstances. The virus is running rampant in every community around the country at the moment. If we have not had the virus, we all know many people who have had it or have it. There is no feeling that there is a national suppression strategy that is working. Our testing regime is under stress. Our vaccine roll-out is not operating as strongly as it was in the summer. We...

Breast Cancer Awareness Month: Statements (21 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...charities do extraordinary work in raising awareness about the signs and symptoms of breast cancer and encourage regular self-examination. However, the Government must do more to assure women that if they feel they may have symptoms, they will be treated in a quick and timely manner. I say this because of the very sad testimony of the late Sarah Harding who gave us her experience of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sustainable Mobility Policy: Department of Transport (13 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...and cyclists, of the hierarchy of the road user model. We speak about journeys of great distance and commuting journeys. We talk about needing to make cycle lanes. I live in Swords. I do not feel safe cycling from Swords into town. Twenty years ago, I witnessed a fatality in Dublin city centre. It had a huge impact on me and where and how I cycle. I used to rip up and down the quays...

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (28 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...ability to pay. There are different types of waiting lists. Today's Irish Examinercontained a very harrowing story about Emma-Jane Stoker-Phelan who has suffered from anorexia for the past 12 years. She said she feels like she is "slowly dying" due to a lack of services. Bodywhys has pointed to a 60% increase in hospital admissions for people suffering from eating disorders. We need...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...living with roofs over their heads, whether they are paying rent, a mortgage or whatever. The Tánaiste's contribution in the House yesterday laid bare how those at the very top of the Government feel about the housing crisis and where their priorities lie. It is not with tenants. I do not think that is shared by the backbenchers of the three parties and may not be shared by some in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Joint Committee
Update on National Broadband Plan: National Broadband Ireland (15 Sep 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...it might be dealing with some everyday obstacles, is it generally going at a clip that would make Mr. Malone and his colleagues happy? I am not talking about targets; I am just talking about when it will feel it has that momentum. I ask him to answer that question after which I have a few more questions.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Missing Persons (8 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...done. To quote Ms Clare Clarke Keane, who has sought the truth about her sister Priscilla who has been missing since 1988, when family members approach a coroner's office or cemetery it still feels like turning up at a lost property office. That is how much separation there is between what the State is doing and how families feel. That said, I take the Minister's initial answer. We...

Covid-19 Vaccine Roll-out: Statements (2 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...a couple of weeks ago was quite incredible. NPHET brought absolutely all its big hitters. It was quite an aggressive meeting and it did not need to be like that. At the root of that was this feeling around antigen testing and how it is not being used in aviation. We are in July now and we have two and a half weeks now until 19 July. The aviation industry needs some certainty on the EU...

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2021: Second Stage (29 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...as hard on its development plans as his colleagues did. We are on opposing sides where many planning issues are concerned, but this is about being committed to one's county and doing what one feels is best. The Minister stated that 15 councils had asked him directly for an extension. An extension is good if they use it to ensure that their county development plan processes are robust...

Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...sector, through it. The rental sector was in crisis before the pandemic and that has been in some ways suspended and in others compounded by the pandemic. We will support the Bill, although we feel elements of it could have been improved. We ask the Minister to look at that on Report Stage, although I imagine that is unlikely. The protections required need to look beyond this summer...

Regional Airports and Aviation: Statements (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...on those affected and their families. The sheer number and scale of the Stobart Air job losses has sent a real shock wave through every other aviation company operating in this State. There is a feeling that the gates have opened and everything that has been threatening for the past year and more is now coming to pass. The Minister of State, in fairness, gave a detailed opening...

Select Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Business of Select Committee
Air Navigation and Transport Bill 2020: Committee Stage (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...ask the officials to meet the people who have done a lot of work on the amendments. I am happy with this approach if other members are also. I am not sure whether Deputy O'Rourke is. I do not feel I need to add much to what Deputy O'Rourke has said.

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...that people and communities, be they surrounded by buildings or fields, would be covered when measures were introduced through carbon budgets and climate action plans. We are going into this feeling a bit uncomfortable and shaky because it is obvious to anyone in the House that, if 80 Green Party Deputies made up the Government side, the Bill would look different. We know that the...

Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Land Development Agency Bill 2021: Committee Stage (Resumed) (1 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...out of the equation. The value of land is the fundamental issue as to why house prices are the way they are. It feeds into the cost of everything related to that. That is where this amendment is coming from. We feel that if the Land Development Agency Bill is to work it will require amendments such as this. This amendment will ensure that, when proposals are brought by the Land...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021 [Seanad]: Second Stage (26 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...for a cup of tea or coffee afterwards and deciding that as they would usually go for a spot of breakfast afterwards, they might just do that. It is easy at this point when we rightly are feeling a bit more hopeful about things that we can look back at measures, take them out of context, and ask why do we need we to do this or that. We continue to make huge sacrifices. This disease...

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: I am sharing time with Deputy Sherlock. Without wanting to get ahead of ourselves, I am taking to my feet in a debate on aviation where it genuinely feels as though there is some light at the end of the tunnel. The EU digital Covid certificate is that light. I am somewhat encouraged by the speech of the Minister, Deputy Eamon Ryan, and the Taoiseach's statement earlier today, as reported...