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Residential Tenancies (No. 2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (23 Jun 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...emigration because the living costs they face are too onerous. Dublin now accounts for almost half of all new graduate jobs but most of these graduates cannot afford to pay high Dublin rents. This is unsustainable and destroying the quality of life. It is not just graduates. What about the people going direct to work, entering through low paid roles and trying to build a career in...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (18 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...this week to discuss a job survival package, not only for Shannon Airport but also for all the rest of our airports. What has been predicted is now happening and livelihoods are being lost and destroyed. I ask that this matter be added to our agenda at some point this week as a matter of urgency.

Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons: Statements (15 Dec 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...States and Russia. This is a zero-sum situation. Nuclear weapons are wrong. They cut to the very heart of insecurity on this planet. No other weapon has the capacity to devastate, kill and destroy not just human life, but flora, fauna and the entire environment in which we live. The Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons will enter into force on 22 January 2021. On the first...

Commission of Investigation (Mother and Baby Homes and certain related Matters) Records, and another Matter, Bill 2020 [Seanad]: Second Stage (21 Oct 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...part of its work, the commission has created a database of every person to have passed through the main mother and baby homes, that the legislation needs to pass by 30 October or the database will be destroyed, and that the Government cannot allow this important information to be lost, which is why this is being done urgently. We do not know why exactly the commission believes it will...

Climate Action: Statements (17 Sep 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...to Covid-19 and that is to be commended. We are all trying to flatten the curve. However, those rapid responses have never happened in relation to climate change. We know climate change is destroying homes, ruining livelihoods and killing people. It is another fight which we need to face collectively. It deserves action and a response to the scale of this global challenge. Climate...

Covid-19 (Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht): Statements (21 May 2020)

Duncan Smith: ...the sea, homes continue to be threatened and local businesses are on the verge of also falling into the sea. Important local amenities such as public toilets are only centimetres away from being destroyed. Measures are being put in place but those lost years will never be got back. Thanks to the proactive nature of the Minister of State, Kevin Boxer Moran, who visited the site a couple...