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Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (22 May 2024)

Duncan Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider introducing a refund of dental fees to medical card holders which would allow people to avail of emergency appointments locally, shorten waiting times and support better dental health for people with disabilities; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23118/24]

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

Duncan Smith: ...the confidence that their funds are protected from mismanagement. A good start to get people to buy into the system and to give that bit of confidence a boost would be to lower the annual management fee. The current 0.5% fee seems excessive to me and will be perceived as such. Trust between the public and financial institutions has been damaged and if this scheme is to be successful,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products (28 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: 161. To ask the Minister for Health to provide a breakdown of the €330 million spent on newly reimbursed medicines since 2021 by wholesaler costs, dispensing fees and commercial payments at a net level to pharmaceutical suppliers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9575/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (8 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: 83. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to outline what threshold, if any, is applicable for the increasing of maintenance fees and fees for sinking funds for apartment owners; what protections, if any, are available to apartment owners to ensure exorbitant fee increases are capped, especially as many owners are struggling to pay these increases; if parking spaces...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Pharmacy Services (27 Jun 2023)

Duncan Smith: 688. To ask the Minister for Health if he will engage and meet with a union (details supplied) to discuss the fees pharmacies receive from the State for all the State drug schemes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30889/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (4 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: 29. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will provide an update on the status of the business case for Cork light rail; the amount spent to date on consulting and engineering fees; when a route will be announced; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20822/23]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: 33. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the plans he has to maintain reduced public transport fees further, and to introduce reduced fares on other modes of transport and routes across the public transport network; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20823/23]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (18 Apr 2023)

Duncan Smith: 819. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will clarify if houses in complexes with apartments are exempt from paying management company fees due to legislation passed in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17545/23]

Nursing Home Charges and Disability Allowance Payments: Statements (9 Feb 2023)

Duncan Smith: ..., to avoid encouraging more cases to be taken. A central part of the injustice is that it was clear that people who had the resources - personal capacity, money, agency or links - to challenge the fees had them quietly dropped whereas other people without the same personal capacity, money or links and who may have been in the same nursing home or even the same room continued to be...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the steps that he is taking in ensuring that funding for sessional childcare facilities and those wholly reliant on ECCE fees will be restructured to provide for the continued viability of these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [62627/22]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Fees (26 Apr 2022)

Duncan Smith: 1217. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if Ukraine refugees are subject to non-EU college fees; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20810/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (22 Mar 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the details of the proposed core funding scheme for childcare; if it includes a price freeze; if he will ensure that providers do not massively increase fees in the readiness for the freeze; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [14444/22]

National Broadband Plan: Statements (27 Jan 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...issues that I and my party colleagues have in relation to the roll-out and how far behind it is but we are not there with this. There are too many questions. The €50 million that was paid in fees and interest payments last year has prompted the Department to ask William Fry and EY to examine the funding structure of NBI at a time when, at committee and in response to...

Social Welfare Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...advertised for seven counties in four lots through a request for tender, RFT, will replace existing jobs clubs and local employment services with the discredited JobPath-style model. It is a payment by fee-per-person-referred approach, that establishes a work-first model, and places no recognition on progression to education, training and work programmes, such as community employment and...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Public Transport (4 Nov 2021)

Duncan Smith: 111. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport when he expects the roll-out of 50% public transport fees for under-24s; if he plans to pilot this scheme; if not, if the scheme will be fully introduced nationwide; if the scheme will be accessible through all modes of public transport; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [53214/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...up and running in a proper way for children under the age of six. No family in Ireland, when a child woke up in the middle of the night with a rash, whether a skin irritation or meningitis, had to worry about a €60 fee for a GP because of the scheme. He was not thanked for it by the electorate but that man can sleep at night knowing he delivered something for the people of...

Residential Tenancies (Student Rents and Other Protections) (Covid-19) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (28 Apr 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...or in a trade, once people obtain it, they are ready to contribute to society and build their lives and communities. They must not be left crippled with debt, whether from the cost of accommodation, fees or anything else associated with getting that qualification. We need to invest in our young people and support them. We must ensure that the ceiling on what they can do is raised as...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Impact of Covid-19 on Driving Instructors: Unite the Union (18 Mar 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...were getting close to applying for their test, how are they being dealt with at the moment? Are they not able to get test dates? What are the thoughts of the witnesses on how that is going to feed into the bulge? Finally, and I believe it was mentioned in response to Deputy Ó Murchú, the call for the extension of the ADI permit is absolute common sense, and it is something...

An Ghaeilge agus An Ghaeltacht: Ráitis (3 Mar 2021)

Duncan Smith: Tá brón orm ach beidh mé ag caint as Béarla. I would like to use this opportunity to bring up the issue of the fees being charged to students of Hibernia College. This has been brought up a number of times over recent weeks, and while it is ultimately the responsibility of the Minister for Education, the Minister for Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Traffic Fines (25 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: 28. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will examine increasing the penalty fees for persons parking in disabled parking bays; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10708/21]