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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: It is a long meeting and we will all get a chance. As regards the mandatory drug testing coming through, there has been mandatory alcohol testing for some time. On the random testing side of things, there was a period in my life when I could not turn a corner without hitting a random Breathalyser test. Some people say the checkpoints are always in the same places but that was not the case...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: Yes, the random checkpoints where drivers are pulled in.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: If I am pulled over, will I be tested for both alcohol and drugs, as a rule?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: My question relates to the checkpoints.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: Okay. That shows how long it has been since I was pulled over.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: I have blown into a breathalyser maybe 15 or 16 times in my life but I have not in the past few years. If I go home tonight and run into a checkpoint, a few pass and I am one that is pulled in, am I blowing into a breathalyser and getting drug tested or is at the discretion of the gardaí at that point? This is just a checkpoint. It has nothing to do with-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: The resourcing is the same and there is no difference between them. The Garda has enough testing capacity for both alcohol and drugs.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: I thank the witnesses for answering my questions. Before I move on, I acknowledge the RSA “Who was Mary Ward?” campaign, which I have noticed I the past week. It is very powerful and hopefully it has impact.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: I will now call Deputy Cannon. If Deputy Lowry comes back, I will bring him in after Deputy Cannon and he will be followed by Deputy Danny Healy-Rae. If Deputy Lowry does not come back, Deputy Danny Healy-Rae will come in after Deputy Cannon.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: I ask the Deputy to keep it short, please.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Safety: Discussion (27 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: I thank the Deputy for coming to the committee. His work on this is well known and well regarded.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: I seek clarification on the last point on the Crumlin report. Is the Minister saying it was not commissioned because of potential poor outcomes, as happened in Temple Street, but it was commissioned because Temple Street had done a report? I ask the Minister to expand on and clarify that.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: When exactly was that report commissioned? How many cases did it review in comparison with Temple Street?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: The waiting list has not reduced despite the number of surgeries increasing. Does the Minister have any information as to why that is the case? Could it be that patients having unexpected further surgeries are being added to the waiting list? Therefore, they never come off or come off only for a short period of time because they have to go on.
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: It is incredible because the questions are simple. There are large waiting lists for those with spina bifida and scoliosis, but we are not dealing with tens of thousands of children. It is a quantifiable number. It does not provide any confidence when the Minister cannot get answers. They do not need to be detailed answers, but just general answers to those questions. Surely these...
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: CHI has been at pains to stress that spinal surgeries are continuing. Is the specific procedure, kyphectomy, continuing at the moment or is it paused for lack of the relevant expertise, for want of a better phrase?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: Does the Minister have information on the impact for that particular procedure? I am not sure if it is captured in a particular waiting list. Has the waiting list for that particular procedure increased in that time?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: On the procurement procedures in Temple Street as it related to the non-regulated springs, has the Minister asked for any immediate measures to be taken there to ensure that no loose procurement or loose procedures are taking place for any other devices for any other types of surgeries in this hospital or in any other hospital?
- Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)
Duncan Smith: In a sector that is beset by perpetual crisis and all too regular scandal, this particular scandal stands somewhat apart, or, if it does not stand apart, it stands with a select few scandals as one of the worst in the history of the State. One of the perpetual crises that we have throughout our health service is waiting lists across every aspect of the service, be it emergency medicine,...