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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (18 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I come to the Tánaiste with a serious request that he work with Ministers in the Department of the Environment, Local Government and Heritage and the Office of Public Works, in tandem with Fingal County Council, to provide further emergency coastal protection measures on Brook Beach in Portrane. There is a long-term solution for sea groynes to protect the houses and community there but...

Disability Justice: Motion [Private Members] (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Solidarity-People Before Profit for tabling this really welcome motion. The Government's decision to scrap the Green Paper on Disability Reform last week was the right thing to do but it should never have been presented in the first place. It took much too long to scrap it. Activists in this area deserve much praise for the pressure they exerted on the Government. The truth of the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 33. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the progress of a new school building (details supplied); the reason for the delays in the delivery of this new building; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16772/24]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 79. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when an application for invalidity allowance by a person (details supplied) will be determined by her Department; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [16862/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Legislative Measures (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 86. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if she is aware of the concern of organisations in the charity sector that run raffles as a funding mechanism regarding the impact of the Gambling Regulation Bill; if exemptions will be put in place to ensure charities are not restricted in running and advertising such raffles; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 133. To ask the Minister for Health his Department’s plans to develop a dedicated pathway for adult ADHD assessment services in Fingal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16808/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 134. To ask the Minister for Health any initiatives he plans to introduce to increase resources for adult mental health assessments in the Fingal region, including a focus on ADHD; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16809/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the current waiting time for adult mental health assessments within Fingal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16810/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 149. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the Cashel community nursing unit, following previous indications that a decision on the unit would be made in quarter 1 of 2024; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16894/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Murphy and welcome you all here today. This work from SIPTU is vitally important. It is a tipping point. It brings together the anecdotal experience that thousands of us have felt on public transport, as well as issues that maybe made the media, but crystallises it into one report which needs to act as a tipping point in terms of action on this issue. If our workers are not...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank all the witnesses for attending. As I said when I was briefly in the Chair at the start of the meeting, this body of work should serve as a tipping point in terms of real action on this. We talk about the transport police in the airport being a template perhaps. I feel much safer in an airport for several reasons. There are barriers to entry into airports, they are usually outside...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I will then have one question for the panel afterwards.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Yes, it is huge.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: It is interesting what we heard from those two contributions. Would Mr. Wynne like to come in with his perspective from Irish Rail?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Doyle, Ms Armstrong and Mr. Wynne very much. What Mr. Doyle said is interesting. Representing a constituency that does not have a Luas service, I sometimes hear people say that it would be great if Dublin Bus or the DART had the security services that are on the Luas, without them understanding the reality that has just been articulated. The people causing trouble on the Luas...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Yes, it should be uniformed and have real power and real teeth. There seems to have been a level of destaffing in traditional roles across some public transport services over the years. Let us take stationmasters at train stations as an example. Platform staff have also gone from train stations. It would also seem that there are fewer inspectors on Dublin Bus services. Even where they...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Mr. Murphy for giving us this tool. We have had management before this committee and we have raised with them safety issues on public transport. We raise issues like something that might happen in the summer on the DART line or the Dublin riots. They always come back and tell us they had an action on a weekend at the end of August where there were dedicated gardaí on the train...

National Cancer Strategy: Motion [Private Members] (16 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward this motion. It is important that we are honest about the failings of this Government on cancer care. I had hoped that the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, perhaps on Daffodil Day on 22 March or as part of, or instead of, a countermotion, would have announced a commitment to funding a national cancer strategy in the upcoming budget. It would not have...

Automatic Enrolment Retirement Savings System Bill 2024: Second Stage (16 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: Auto-enrolment is an issue that has long been talked about. We are glad that we now have a Bill before us. We have reservations about some aspects of the more detailed elements but broadly speaking are supportive of its provisions. The impetus behind auto-enrolment is to address the pension coverage gap and to take steps towards improving the financial security of people in retirement....

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Departmental Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 157. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment the status of the warmth and well-being pilot for COPD sufferers; if there are plans to expand the pilot or to expand access to the fully funded energy upgrade scheme for all who are recognised as COPD sufferers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16008/24]