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Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I welcome the announcement of a six-month delay, but we understand the money is still going to have to be paid. The sum of €12.5 million will have to come from somewhere else to be paid to these eight PPP companies in order for the State to meet its contractual obligations. What has emerged from this is a worrying proposition, in terms of how we as a State, as the owner of the road...

Toll Charge Increases: Motion [Private Members] (29 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Ged Nash.

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: Tackling climate change is an act of intergenerational and global solidarity, and the COP process is the only multilateral forum we have to do so. It is vital we make this process work. COP has shown it is able to deliver commitments and agreements, but action is what really counts. Realising the scale of the climate crisis we are facing, it is difficult not to be disheartened following...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Schemes (24 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 179. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if support is available for a young couple who have recently bought a rural cottage that requires some work (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58537/22]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (24 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 180. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he intends extending the period for local authorities to purchase homes in which a tenant is in situ into the year to ensure that all purchases are completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58538/22]

Transport in Galway and Other Areas: Motion [Private Members] (23 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: It is great to have an opportunity to speak on the motion, although I do not profess to have any great insight into the Galway transport system. However, the proposer, Deputy Connelly, and, indeed, Deputy Farrell as Deputies for the area and the detail of the motion highlight the fundamental need for a bottom-up approach to a transport model that works for Galway. It is a wonderful city on...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 451. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if he will explain the reasoning as to the reason a person who is in receipt of partial capacity benefits, if recipients are on an invalidity-based payment rate they will not be entitled to the one-off payment of €500; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57570/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 644. To ask the Minister for Health if there are plans to introduce a mechanism for frontline workers to register for their pandemic bonus payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [57634/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 720. To ask the Minister for Health if he will confirm that persons should be afforded dental treatment and appliances by the dental hospital in accordance with function 4 (b) of its establishment order, irrespective of any assessment as suitable for treatment by undergraduate or postgraduate students; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58031/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Cards (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 768. To ask the Minister for Health if he will sanction that all medical card holders be entitled to the entresto heart drug, regardless of their LVEF level, given that a person (details supplied) is finding purchasing the drug a financial burden due to their level not being below LVEF 35; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [58166/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 769. To ask the Minister for Health if he has plans to approve the drug (details supplied); the criteria used to disapprove the drug; and his views on the lack of access to the drug in Ireland, despite its widespread use across Europe for persons with compromised immune systems. [58171/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 770. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the situation that persons who are immunocompromised and who are prevented from ending the quarantine face, despite the lifting of Covid-19 restrictions; if his Department records data as to the number of such persons who are affected; his plans to support such persons to resume entering congregated public spaces; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 771. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of Covid-19-related ICU admissions in each month to date in 2022, between medically immunosuppressed persons and persons whose immune systems are not interfered with by medication, and between persons who are fully vaccinated and unvaccinated. [58174/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 772. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a breakdown of Covid-19-related deaths in each month to date in 2022, between medically immunosuppressed persons and persons whose immune systems are not interfered with by medication, and between persons who are fully vaccinated and unvaccinated. [58175/22]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I hope he follows through. I was not expecting this today. I was not down to speak today. I am usually a suit man when I am speaking in the Dáil but this issue is such that I had to submit a Topical Issue matter. People are angry about this. Sometimes an issue can be the straw that breaks the camel's back. These tolling companies do not have to put their prices up. I have never...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I think everyone in this House is. I have had representations on this issue from all over the country today, as I am sure everyone else has. People do not want to accept this increase. It is just too tough for them.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Road Tolls (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: The increase in tolls came as a bolt out of the blue for everyone, including Government, today. I am probably the only Deputy in this Chamber who does not have to go through a toll to get to Leinster House. I am looking at the M7, M8 and M9. We are all used to paying tolls. The M50 and the Dublin Port Tunnel are in my county. This is not about tolling as a revenue raiser. Nobody...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 200. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units built in each primary and secondary school in south Kildare over the past five years; the location of those units; the number of places in the units; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57083/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of ASD units in planning to be built in each primary and secondary school; the location of those units; the number of places that the units will have; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57084/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Special Educational Needs (17 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if research has been carried out by her Department into the number of ASD places needed in primary and secondary schools in south Kildare for the next five years; if so, the number that are required; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [57085/22]