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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: Aer Lingus will have a view and it will make it public I imagine.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: There is a fixed tension in the aviation industry between the airlines, which continually drive down costs and prices, and the airports here and elsewhere, which have fixed costs that do not change and in fact will probably only increase. This is something the aviation industry will have to wrestle with but that is another point. The witnesses from Aer Lingus mentioned they foresaw demand...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I am sorry. The way this is worded in the opening statement is: We reiterated our intention...[and] planned for and were prepared for the return in passenger demand. We built appropriate buffers into our plans in order to deal with [the] reasonable level of additional disruption. The inference there is that Aer Lingus prepared and hired for this outcome, while others did not. Is this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: Turning to the representatives of the DAA, is that accurate? Do they feel that Aer Lingus, as a major stakeholder in Dublin Airport, was saying that late last year? Did the representatives of the DAA have a different view as to how aviation was going to recover? Do they feel that Aer Lingus was prepared and that the DAA was not?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: On the training of the security staff, I acknowledge the great strides made at all levels this summer compared with where we were earlier in the season. The security workers are being lauded by people going through the airport for the great work they are doing. Turning to the training provided for new workers coming in, some of them went on the job with a couple of weeks of training. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I apologise to the representatives of Swissport and SHP for not having enough time to ask them questions. I thank them for coming in.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Situation at Dublin Airport: Discussion (26 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I am okay.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Resettlement Programme (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: On the tribute to the efforts of the Irish people and the outpouring of support and response, I will tell the Minister of State what happens when a volunteer group interfaces with one of the private, for-profit companies that are being brought in by IPAS to run certain reception centres and to protect the basic human rights and dignity of refugees. We have an amazing volunteer group of...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Refugee Resettlement Programme (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: We have an absolute crisis with regard to how we are dealing with refugees in this country. We awoke this morning to news of the situations in Dublin Airport, Citywest and beyond. However, those of us who have been engaged on the ground not just since the Ukrainian war but before that in terms of the situation for refugees coming to this country through the international protection...

Summer Economic Statement: Statements (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I welcome the opportunity to speak on the summer economic statement on behalf of the Labour Party. It is undeniable that the statement shows how well the economy is doing on paper right now, but this is only on paper. These abstract economic figures do not tally with the real lived experience of hard-pressed households in my own Fingal constituency and across the country. The only numbers...

Protection of Accident Victims from Non-Consensual Recording of Images Bill 2022: First Stage (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Protection of Accident Victims from Non-Consensual Recording of Images Bill 2022: First Stage (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to prohibit the recording or publication without consent of certain images of persons who are dead, seriously injured or in shock as a result of an accident or other emergency, and to provide for connected matters. I welcome the opportunity to seek leave to introduce this Bill on First Stage today. In our country, we deal...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 761. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in an organisation (details supplied) who were working in practice during the Covid-19 pandemic who at yet to receive the Covid pandemic bonus payment; when they will receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39141/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (14 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 780. To ask the Minister for Health the number of staff in a medical setting (details supplied) in Swords who were working in practice during the Covid-19 pandemic and are yet to receive their pandemic bonus payment; when they will receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39237/22]

Planning and Development (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2022 [Seanad]: Committee and Remaining Stages (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: I am not going to speak for long because there are Members present who have amendments down that need to be reached and discussed. I have been in the Dáil a relatively short time but even people who have been here much longer would expect a Bill that enters on First Stage and is debated on Second Stage would bear a general similarity to the Bill that emerges at the end of the process...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 472. To ask the Minister for Health the number of community disability network teams by region and CHO; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38250/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 473. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an up-to-date staff list including grades and job titles; the number of roles that are filled; the number of roles that are vacant; the number of roles that are unfilled due to sick or maternity leave on each children’s disability network teams as of 30 June 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38251/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 474. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children’s disability network teams that are being run from primary care centres; the local of those centres; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38252/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 475. To ask the Minister for Health the number of general practitioner registrars who were working in practice during the Covid pandemic but seconded to the community Covid hubs are yet to receive their pandemic special recognition payment; if so, when they will receive that payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38253/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 Jul 2022)

Duncan Smith: 476. To ask the Minister for Health if the administration staff such as general practitioner receptionists and secretaries are eligible for the pandemic special recognition payment; if so, when they will receive the payment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [38254/22]