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Children's Health Ireland - Patient safety concerns and reviews in paediatric orthopaedic surgical services: Statements, Questions and Answers (26 Sep 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...that could not have been delivered to us and to families at some point last week, on Wednesday or Thursday, and we could have had the departure point from then rather than from now. However, we are where we are. The families and the advocacy groups feel they are being ignored, not being listened to and not being contacted, and if they make contact with the hotline, they are not getting a...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Services Staff (21 Sep 2023)

Duncan Smith: The unions have never been backwards in wanting to engage with the Government on this. The Government is not meeting the basic asks these workers require. However, we are where we are. We do not yet have the results but we know there will be a mandate for industrial action, up to and including an all-out strike. If that happens, it will be a hammer blow to communities. The difference in...

Housing and Evictions: Motion [Private Members] (21 Feb 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...being bureaucratically resistant to the scheme. I do not believe that anyone is fully happy with the scheme at a time when we do not have high-volume delivery of public housing on a consistent basis. However, we are where we are and we need to ensure that the scheme can work quickly and some flexibility is applied to it. As those of us who run busy advice clinics and represent people...

Emergency Housing Measures: Motion [Private Members] (9 Feb 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...the party is going to remind people of that or give them a warm glow when they remember the 1990s and early noughties. The opposite is happening. People are absolutely furious. Mr. Ahern's return reminds them of why we are where we are. It reminds them why workers are unable to afford to live, be they renting or buying, and why core front-line workers in our health and transportation...

National Maternity Hospital: Statements (31 Mar 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...false. Anyone speaking on this issue or any other issues relating to women's health would much rather be focusing on other issues such as the speed of delivery and not clinical governance. Unfortunately, we are where we are and it is quite a depressing and grim space. I hope the Minister will be able to give some clarity on when this legal framework will be published. It is to be hoped...

Health Insurance (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...need to, Sláintecare is not going to fundamentally solve the problem of our two-tier health system and the hold private health insurance companies and private health providers have. We need to get real in that debate. We are where we are with it now. It is another example of a deeply flawed structure within our health system. As I said, we see its outworkings across many areas. We...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: From the Seanad (14 Jul 2021)

Duncan Smith: Some 45 minutes to end the legislative process on this Bill is unfortunate, but we are where we are. I welcome Deputy Bríd Smith's amendment in terms of climate justice. There is unfinished work on the definition of climate justice and just transition in this Bill. This debate, as short as it was, again highlighted the lack of reality in this country, in that it is not just one sector...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development (Amendment) Bill 2021: Report and Final Stages (16 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...will be taken. There could have been a 20-minute, a 20-hour or a two-week debate on this stage. The fact of the matter is that nothing will change based on what was presented after Second Stage and we are where we are. The fight and the battle will move to the next part which is the climate action plan. It is a shame that we are where we are on those elements, notwithstanding that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rapid Antigen Testing: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: I thank the witnesses for their attendance today. We certainly have a full court press and it has been an interesting meeting so far. It has been a little combative and it did not need to be, but we are where we are. The Department of Health is supporting the development of a collaborative project by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science in...

Affordable Housing: Motion [Private Members] (18 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...know it is not easy to deliver the housing but it needs to be delivered. I got involved in political activism because of the housing issue in 2008. Circumstances have evolved since then, and we are where we are. We have a homelessness crisis that is beyond comprehension, an affordability crisis that beggars belief and a supply crisis that shows no sign of being resolved. It is an...

Covid-19: Motion [Private Members] (10 Feb 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...is to see the work of the doctors and nurses in Tallaght Hospital, to see the work of the porters, the receptionists and everyone else in that facility and in healthcare facilities all over the country. That is why we are where we are. That is why we need to be supporting strong public health measures to protect those workers and to get workers who are currently at home on PUP, workers...