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Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Funding (7 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: 1349. To ask the Minister for Health what changes have been made to the system for reimbursing dispensing opticians for vouchers issued by the HSE for the glasses of children; if he will provide a list of the type of payments available for each type of glasses or prescription; what rules apply; up until what age payments are made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48678/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Further and Higher Education (7 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: 1440. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the transport supports that are available for a student (details supplied) with Asperger's, ASD with dyslexia, scoliosis, hip displacement who has recently commenced a PLC course following completion of their Leaving Certificate and is finding the commute from their home very difficult; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48520/23]

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: We know that, regrettably, lamentably and tragically we are going backwards in terms of road safety and road deaths. We saw 25 road deaths in August alone. We nearly had one death every day during what should be one of the safer months. As of Tuesday last, 24 October, we have seen an increase of 36 in the number of road deaths as compared with the corresponding date in 2022. We have also...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Public Sector Pensions (26 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 120. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment when pension payment will commence from his Department to a person (details supplied). [47088/23]

Neutrality: Motion [Private Members] (25 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: I thank Deputy Connolly and the Independent Group for bringing this very timely motion for discussion. Discussing our neutrality against the backdrop of what is happening in the Middle East is very pertinent and very important. It brings that debate through our lens, which is needed. We, in the Labour Party, are on record as saying we were not happy with how the consultative forum was set...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: I thank Deputy Cullinane and Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. The Minister provided a few quotes as to what our front-line workers were hearing. When he is summing up, perhaps he could say where those quotes come from. I do not believe they came from the proposers of the motion. They are not from me and I do not believe they will come from the Deputies who will speak...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: I have watched it on screen. I say this in the context of a debate of this nature when many of us, including the Minister, are trying to be serious about this very concerning budget. At a meeting of the Joint Committee on Health earlier, we heard from Bernard Gloster, CEO of the HSE, and Robert Watt, the Secretary General of the Department of Health. While both were coming at it from...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 290. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will consider the case of a child with special needs (details supplied) who is collected from Swords at 7 am before their bus makes a two-hour trip to Donabate, Portrane, Kinsealy, Ballymun, Baldoyle and, finally, to Blackrock, and then spends another 1.5 hours on the return journey home; if she will consider splitting the route and...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 377. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will take steps to ensure that the household package, including the free fuel scheme, is paid to a person (details supplied) who now lives alone due to the death of their spouse. [46632/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 485. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will ask his Department to contact the parents of a child (details supplied) who has been on a list for early intervention attention for over six years, has had an assessment of needs completed but has received no indication of when they will receive support; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Investment in Healthcare: Statements (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: Deputy Cullinane made a point that is worth repeating. The statements by the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, and the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, are fundamentally contradictory. The Minister of State indicated that funding "to maintain existing services has been provided to meet inflation and rising patient demand", whereas, according to the Minister, "Some areas are not getting...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 187. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if certain correspondence between her Department and an organisation (details supplied) have not put the funding for or the work by an educational charity in Cork city in jeopardy. [45838/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Charitable and Voluntary Organisations (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 188. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if all steps will be taken within her remit to ensure that an educational charity (details supplied) secures a patron, and copper fastens the future of the educational charity in years to come. [45848/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Health Services Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 271. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth how much additional funding would have to be allocated to Section 39 bodies in 2024 to provide for pay parity with similar grades in the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45946/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapists, dietitians and speech and language therapists working in Bantry General Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45815/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE radiographers working in Galway University Hospital and Portiuncula Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form; if this number will be further increased; and if so, when. [45816/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocation to Cappagh Orthopaedic Hospital in the years of 2021, 2022 and 2023, in tabular form. [45817/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior pharmaceutical technicians working in Wexford General Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45818/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 282. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE urologist registrars working in Cavan General Hospital in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45819/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (19 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE clinical specialist physiotherapists in developmental dysplasia of the hip at Beaumont Hospital in the years 2021 and 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [45820/23]