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Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: At today's Business Committee, it was agreed that the Labour Party would give time to the Independent Deputy MacSharry, who has just arrived. I believe I have seven minutes. The Minister and Minister of State are present. We have seen, with the demonstration today and with the reaction from the public up and down this country to the proposed Gresham House deal, how strongly people feel...

Human Tissue (Transplantation, Post-Mortem, Anatomical Examination and Public Display) Bill 2022: Second Stage (24 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: We welcome this Bill and will be supporting it. We had been assured that this Bill would come before the Dáil several times last year and it was a cause of great distress for many that it had been delayed for so long. Yet, it is here before us now and there is no doubt that it is a highly technical and sensitive Bill that required a lot of time. The Bill does a number of important...

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...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: That is encouraging. I am conscious that following last night's debate on the Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill, the Department of Health is having to do more work on that going into January. That is understandable and a good thing. I am conscious of the pressure the Department is under but this is something we feel must be brought forward as early as possible. ...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: Last week's two-hour debate included many examples, stories and emotive words on this. This question is not replaying that but is a demonstration that we are continuing to push this until it is delivered beyond the citizens’ assembly. The work of Deputy Ó Ríordáin on this especially is to be commended. Public opinion is with this. When speaking to families,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: 2. To ask the Minister for Health the timeframe for a citizens' assembly on drugs policy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61090/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Citizens' Assembly (8 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: Following our Private Members' motion last week on the decriminalisation of drug users, I wish to ask about the timeframe for the citizens' assembly that has been agreed by the Government. Are we any closer to understanding when we will have that assembly?

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: We welcome what the Minister has said in terms of moving on a duty of candour. It is interesting that the Minister has moved in the past couple of hours when he should have moved much earlier. As I said in my earlier contribution when I mentioned the final Scally report, this has been well flagged as a serious and fundamental ask of this legislation. We are happy to give it extra time in...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: Okay, it will be done there. If we are going to January, the Minister must mean January. The Minister must see this being done by the end of January. He will have time over the Christmas period to get this right. In his final summing up, if the Minister could expand on how this will get from here to where it needs to go, we would appreciate that.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: Deputy Alan Kelly set out our position on a number of elements of the Bill, including notifiable incidents, anonymisation, lack of consultation with the 221+ group on the Bill itself and auditing. I will speak to amendment No. 14, which is in my name and Deputy Kelly's. The Bill is trying to make open disclosure of certain incidents around patient care mandatory, but the quid pro quofor this...

Horse and Greyhound Racing Fund Regulations 2022: Motion (Resumed) (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after "That Dáil Éireann" and substitute the following: "notes that: — while it is acknowledged that the horse and greyhound racing sectors do not qualify for sports capital funding, they are unique in Irish sport in that they are supported by the State through their own ring-fenced statutory fund; — payments...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: What?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: What is the next slot?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I will resume my seat. I had not planned to talk for long on this. I will just end up going around the houses.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: When will that be?

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I probably will not take the 12 minutes but I want to make sure the debate will continue if the following speaker is not here.

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle. We have the same debate annually in which we amend the Health Insurance Act to modify the regulations governing the private health insurance sector. The whole goal of health policy at this time is the delivery of Sláintecare, that is, the delivery of a universal, single-tier healthcare system, with access for all and service free at the point of use....