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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 363. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a school place will be allocated to a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3209/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (24 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 375. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills why no alternative school place has been offered to a child (details supplied).; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [3337/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (24 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 607. To ask the Minister for Health if a residential place can be provided for a child (details supplied) in County Kildare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3215/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 2. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he is taking to ease the concerns of residents in north County Dublin in the Dublin Airport flight path who have had a substantive increase in aircraft noise; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2369/23]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: A number of communities in north County Dublin have been experiencing huge disruption in their lives caused by aircraft noise for the past couple of months. Some from the outside might say that they live near the airport, but that is not the reason these communities are angry. They are angry because these routes of take-off and landing do not comply with any of the routes set out in the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: First, we need to know how the initial flight paths that have been used for the past couple of months and will be used to the end of February managed to go through, considering they are so outrageous relative to the planning permissions. The revised flight paths we are expecting at the end of February were published by the IAA two days ago. There is great concern that the revised plans are...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: As a Deputy and Minister of State who will be familiar with this issue given his constituency borders the airport, I am sure he has attended many of the public consultations. I ask him to ask the DAA and Irish Aviation Authority, IAA, to make a presentation to the communities on the new the flight paths prior to them coming into operation. The communities have requested this on a number of...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 25. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that he plans to take to curtail the issues experienced by taxi drivers arising with the PSV grant from 2022 lapsing due to heavy backlogs in the delivery of electric vehicles which will be delivered in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2360/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 42. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the discussions as of January 2023 that he and his Department have had with officials in Irish aviation in relation to lower-emissions aircraft and overall emission reduction in the sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2363/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Test (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 56. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update as of January 2023 on the measures being taken to reduce the waiting times at NCT test centres nationwide; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2361/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Policy (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 61. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the practice in London whereby many different transport operators offer free travel for a person and a nominated partner or family member on the TfL network; his further views on whether such a policy would benefit recruitment of transport workers; if such a policy could be implemented in Ireland; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: 90. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the measures that have been taken to review all bus, rail, and tram infrastructure to ensure transport hubs are adequately resourced and accessible for persons with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2362/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: I welcome the witnesses and congratulate Mr. Jacobs on his appointment. It is great to have the role filled. There are a couple of areas I want to touch and expand on. On the capital investment side, for those of us who are more familiar with Dublin Airport and have been given detailed briefings, we know how important this capital infrastructure is and we know it needs to be funded. It...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: How did Ms Gubbins feel when she saw that? I was at the vast majority of those public consultations. We were intimately familiar with the noise contours and they basically went east to west, with the waves either side, but they did not go that way. Would Ms Gubbins accept there is a huge breach of trust with the residents of those communities that will be very hard to repair because of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: One of the big issues I had was that the airline noise competent authority, ANCA, was so closely linked to Fingal County Council and the DAA is such a high ratepayer of Fingal County Council. There was always this concern that the parties were too close for a regulatory function and the first thing out of the gate, or out of the runway, was this. It has just crippled trust, unfortunately,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: In terms of the air noise that has impacted on these residents, they go to ANCA and to their local councillors, who are getting huge pressure, but ANCA is saying it is not its problem, the DAA is saying it did not know until the first flight took off, and the IAA is wiping its hands of it. Everyone is just throwing their hands up in the air and asking how anyone could possibly plan a runway...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: Is this what the submission means at point 16, when it states “We need to RESET”, using capital letters.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Aviation Policy: Dublin Airport Authority (18 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: That is good. The DAA needs 1,000, so it will have to deliver 1,000 either way, I image. Therefore, to get that funded, something else will suffer.