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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Issues Relating to Road Safety: Road Safety Authority (24 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: I thank everyone for coming in today. There was more detail on data sharing on road safety in the material that came with the opening statement but I will ask this for the benefit of those watching. The opening statement referred to data sharing taking place in some form. The locations of interest and local authorities can apply under a location of interest safety scheme and 55 did last...

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

Duncan Smith: ...behind auto-enrolment is to address the pension coverage gap and to take steps towards improving the financial security of people in retirement. This aim is to be welcomed. The 2022 census data shows that about 20% of those beyond retirement age live in relative income poverty. That is around 145,000 pensioners who represent just over a fifth of the total population living in poverty,...

Anniversary of the Introduction of the Smoking Ban: Statements (11 Apr 2024)

Duncan Smith: ...the next generation of smokers through marketing its products to children and young people and dumping cheap products in the developing world, and how it funds and uses front organisations to protect its interests. Through this process of briefing key leaders and influencers, by October 2003 the entire trade union movement had swung behind the move for a legislative solution to a...

Road Safety: Statements (26 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...corresponding date in 2022. We have also seen 31 more collisions in this timeframe according to An Garda Síochána. In May, I called on the Road Safety Authority, RSA, to be mandated to publish data on road traffic collisions in order to better inform Ireland’s transport strategy and, ultimately, protect drivers and pedestrians and save lives. The worrying statistics we...

Trends in Mortality and Estimates of Excess Mortality: Statements (18 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: .... Collectively, the country tried to do its very best. However, that is where I first came to realise the meaning of this term "excess mortality" on a regular basis and to dig down into it. The data on excess deaths, as the Minister of State, Deputy Naughton, said in her statement, are difficult to calculate and to agree upon and there are huge sensitivities to them as well. When one...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (3 Dec 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...who will be out of work. The fact these supports have been wound down while we reintroduce restrictions will mean people will lose their jobs and incomes is what angers me the most. We need to protect these vulnerable workers who, even at the best of times, can have irregular work. Now they are in the worst of times and have very few supports. They face a December that is even darker...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: EU Bodies (17 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...eJustice portal; the reason for the delay in providing information for the eJustice portal; if she will be amending or repealing section 18(h) of the Act in order that Irish citizens can enjoy the same data protection rights as all other EU citizens; and if not, the reason therefor. [32536/21]

International Travel and Aviation: Statements (25 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: .... This is where the rubber meets the runway as regards whether or not aviation will recover. If we do not get this right as a country and implement it as soon as is practicable, in a manner that protects public health, then any chance our aviation sector has of a full recovery will be lost. The Government is finally getting it and is willing to push this issue as quickly as possible. I...

Covid-19 Vaccination Programme: Statements (21 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...-out of a vaccine is difficult, but the first guiding principle is transparency, so we should have figures for those subsets. Last week in the Chamber, I requested figures compiled by the Health Protection Surveillance Centre, HPSC, that showed the number of workers who were sick with Covid. The Minister provided them and that helped. It did not bring down the ceiling. It helped with...

Covid-19 (Health): Statements and Questions and Answers (13 Jan 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...used by as many locals as people travelling into this country. I tabled a parliamentary question seeking breakdown of who used it in terms of people who are travelling in and who are locals. That data are not available, which is really disappointing. The second issue I wish to discuss is workers. Over recent weeks, as the spread of the virus has intensified, health workers have been...

Impact of Covid-19 Restrictions: Motion [Private Members] (16 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: .... It has to be asked whether this is a concerted effort to try to time out the entitlement to short-time work. I hope it is not and that this issue will be brought to the Minister for Social Protection and the Taoiseach. There has generally been goodwill from this and the previous Government and most people on this side of the House to try to ensure that any workers who have been...