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Mental Health Bill 2024: Second Stage (18 Sep 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...because of overprescribing by a junior doctor. Overmedication is extremely dangerous and can have lifelong damage. One case of this was so extreme that a young man who was overmedicated by the north Kerry CAMHS had to undergo surgery because of the impact on his body. Therefore, to see regulations finally introduced is welcome and we need to make sure they are thorough and efficient. ...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (25 Jun 2024)

Duncan Smith: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant neonatologists based at the maternity unit of Kerry General Hospital in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [27165/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Emergency Departments (16 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: 659. To ask the Minister for Health the average emergency department waiting times at University Hospital Kerry to date in 2024. [16094/24]

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...to the regulation of CAMHS would also provide an opportunity to ensure that people availing of these services are neither overmedicated nor undermedicated. A number of instances of overmedication in Kerry were revealed last year. The Maskey report stated that significant harm was caused to 46 children because of overprescribing by a junior doctor. Overmedication is extremely dangerous...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (27 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: 549. To ask the Minister for Health the number of HSE advanced paramedics based in County Kerry in 2023 and to date in 2024, in tabular form. [8975/24]

Healthcare Provision in Rural Communities: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...There is a crisis in the provision of healthcare services in rural and, indeed, all other communities, including my own. The previous speaker mentioned not having enough primary healthcare centres in Kerry. We do not have a primary healthcare centre in Swords, which is the largest town in Ireland that does not have such a centre. I was on the radio this morning making the point that it...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Care Services (8 Feb 2024)

Duncan Smith: 317. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons in County Kerry who have requested additional home care hours; and the average waiting times for receiving additional care. [5863/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (5 Dec 2023)

Duncan Smith: 548. To ask the Minister for Health the additional resources that will be provided by the National Ambulance Service to the Kerry area. [53527/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (5 Dec 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...Minister for Health the level of additional core expenditure for new developments, excluding funding for carryover and otherwise maintaining existing levels of services, which has been allocated to Kerry University Hospital for 2024; and what these new developments will entail. [53541/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (21 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: 483. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE consultant rheumatologist and rheumatologist registrars working in Kerry University Hospital in 2021, 2022 and to-date in 2023, in tabular form. [50619/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff (7 Nov 2023)

Duncan Smith: 1235. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE senior cardiology dieticians based in Kerry University Hospital in 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [48162/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Dental Services (3 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 682. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE dentists and dental nurses working in the dental clinic at University Hospital, Kerry, in the years of 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [42727/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: National Car Testing: Discussion (20 Sep 2023)

Duncan Smith: That is good to hear. The RSA is looking for new NCT sites in Dublin, Monaghan and Limerick-Clare. It is great to learn that a new site will be opened in County Kerry. Have sites been identified in any of these areas? Are sites close to being secured in these areas or is the RSA still on the look-out? I know the process is difficult.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (11 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: 721. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children currently on the waiting list for hearing examinations in County Kerry by length of time waiting, in tabular form. [33708/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Transport Sectoral Emissions Ceiling: Discussion (26 Apr 2023)

Duncan Smith: A joined-up approach to the pricing of public transport is vital. I will be travelling to Kerry next week and spending the day there. I have four options for getting there - car, bus, rail or plane. When I checked when planning the trip a couple weeks ago, the plane was the cheapest option. It was cheaper than rail, cheaper than fuel for the car would be and cheaper than the bus. That is...

Interim Report on Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...key staff and a failure to look for alternative models to provide services where staff could not be recruited. That shows an inflexibility throughout our health service. We see that reflected in Kerry CAMHS, where a funded position has been in place but not filled since 2016. The statement made earlier by the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, indicates that position will not be filled...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (20 Sep 2022)

Duncan Smith: Over the next three days, thousands of SIPTU members working in the community and disability services and section 39 organisations will be taking targeted strike action in counties Cork, Kerry, Mayo, Galway and Donegal. While many public servants are balloting over the Building Momentum agreement, section 39 and community workers remain outside any formal pay negotiation mechanism and have...

Easing of Covid-19 Restrictions: Statements (2 Feb 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...to mention this because I know that Ministers need to travel on occasion. However, there are reasons for travel and there is the extent of the travel. We have had a week where we discussed south Kerry CAMHS, statements on youth mental health, a motion on the cost of cancer and now we have statements on the easing of Covid-19 restrictions and the Minister is not here again. All those...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service: Motion [Private Members] (1 Feb 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...may be that they are struggling and need help. That is to be commended. However, if we keep going the way we are, with waiting lists like this and situations like the one that happened in south Kerry CAMHS, people will be less inclined to come forward. They will keep their problems to themselves because they cannot face being left outside and not getting the care they require or, worst...