Results 1-20 of 188 for speaker:Duncan Smith

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: Indeed. The fact that this had to take place outside of collective agreements highlights how unusual it is, and I acknowledge the Tánaiste's action on this. However, the reason this has happened is underpinned by a structural issue in terms of our airfields in the Dublin region, specifically Weston aerodrome. The Irish Times has reported that we have been losing technicians to the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: That is encouraging but, again, when commercial interests impact critical public services such as what should be operating out of Baldonnel, the State needs to act and look at those structural problems. One of them is the Coast Guard contract. It has been well debated here and in committee in the last Dáil and will be again. We have nearly €750 million of public funds helping...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: That is interesting. Is it the Tánaiste's hope or expectation that the Commission will bring some options to the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on Monday week? The occupied territories Bill will be coming forward. I am sure the Tánaiste's attention has been drawn to the legal action that has been taken by a transnational group of lawyers against Airbnb due to its operation of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 11. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the urgent actions he and his Department will take to ensure that the 505 squadron at Casement Aerodrome at Baldonnel is fully staffed and will not be forced to continue to operate at 50% capacity and a reduced flying schedule; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29865/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Air Corps (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: What urgent actions will the Tánaiste and his Department take to ensure that the 505 squadron at Casement Aerodrome at Baldonnel is fully staffed and will not be forced to continue to operate at 50% capacity and at a reduced flying schedule?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 10. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to provide an update on the incident in southern Lebanon where Irish peacekeepers came under fire from the Israel Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29866/25]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: This question is on the shots fired at our peacekeeping soldiers in Lebanon. Will the Tánaiste provide a comment on this?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: I thank the Tánaiste and I welcome the swift and stern diplomatic response we had to this incident through the United Nations. As the Tánaiste has said, this is a pattern of behaviour. There is no sense this pattern will stop. We are lucky there were no injuries or loss of life but if, God forbid, we see further instances such as this or an escalation, what is open to us as a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Military Neutrality (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: I am disappointed in how the heads of the Bill have been presented. I think there is support for 80% or 90% of what needs to be achieved in terms of our national security, or we could at least reach accommodations, such as on the extraction of our citizens from war zones. The Tánaiste will launch the national maritime strategy today, which I welcome and is much needed. There is an...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 76. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence to outline any plans he has to improve pay and conditions for members of the Defence Forces; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29867/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Appeals (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 400. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31431/25]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (12 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 401. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection to examine the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31432/25]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: In the programme for Government, there is a commitment to publishing a national policy on adult safeguarding in the health and social care sector. The Taoiseach states a considerable amount of work has been done. Given the revelations in "RTÉ Investigates" about our older and more vulnerable residents in nursing homes, can we please have a debate this Thursday on the issue, when the...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Air Navigation Orders (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 197. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if a US military flyover will be permitted during the NFL game in September of this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29879/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 535. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will outline the pupil enrolment and waiting list figures for a school (details supplied); if she will provide an update on the provision of a new primary school for Rush; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Admissions (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 585. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of children living on the Donabate peninsula that access primary and secondary schools outside the Donabate area; to include details of the schools and to confirm the number of children who were unable to secure school places locally over the last three years, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29841/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 601. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills to provide an update on the delivery of a new school (details supplied) on the previously purchased site on Fosterstown lands; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [29874/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Fire Stations (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 803. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to provide a list of all new fire stations opened in the past eight years, by location, excluding renovations to existing fire stations, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29582/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1015. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality to provide a list of the number of Gardaí staffed at each Garda station in the country, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29586/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Fishing Industry (10 Jun 2025)

Duncan Smith: 1110. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if fishing trawler boats can access the sea off the coast of Portrane and close to the beach as a number of trawlers have been seen very close to the quay at the coast of Portrane; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29581/25]