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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Aviation Industry (10 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: 65. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport how many private jet flights landed and departed the State in 2022, excluding military or diplomatic flights; where those flights landed and departed from; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43786/23]

Situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory: Statements (13 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...continues its policy of what has to be said is almost a benign approach to the activities of Israel. I do acknowledge that there is more or less a consensus in the position of political parties in Ireland on this, but we continue to meet actors in Europe that do turn a blind eye to the oppression of the Palestinian people, and they continue to do so. This is something that Ireland needs...

Progress on the National Parks and Wildlife Service: Statements (6 Jul 2023)

Duncan Smith: .... I would like to bring to his attention a few others. One of the recommendations that emerged from the citizens' assembly was about working with other public bodies. I am thinking of Inland Fisheries Ireland, IFI. Its representatives are in here today appearing before the Committee of Public Accounts. They will not be talking about the health of our rivers and riverbanks or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Duncan Smith: .... That is the issue locally for me and it is the issue of frustration. I hope we can come back and talk about that sometime very soon. In his presentation, Mr. Jacobs referred to the McEvaddy land and said that he would not envisage use of it for a third terminal. Is that correct? Is the strategic plan for Dublin Airport explicitly to develop a third terminal?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Security, Recruitment and Training at Dublin Airport: Discussion (14 Jun 2023)

Duncan Smith: In that case, what are DAA's plans for those lands? I accept prices are crazy and that whatever the price will be, it will be a substantial sum. What does DAA envisage being put on the land?

Hospital Waiting Lists: Motion [Private Members] (23 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...impact on the retention of current healthcare staff. We have spoken at length on the housing crisis and will continue to do so. I have been speaking to CEOs of hospitals that are looking at their land banks to develop accommodation facilities for their existing workers and to attract in workers from overseas. That is not a sustainable accommodation model for healthcare workers. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (18 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: 253. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will confirm whether plans, drawings, or both, have been drawn up for the provision of a primary school at lands in Corballis, Donabate; if so, if she will provide a copy of same; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [23916/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Standard Instrument Departures at Dublin Airport: Irish Aviation Authority (17 May 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...the output of this modelling in the relevant action application as well as modelling information provided to Fingal County Council for the Fingal county development plan and local area plan for land use planning noise zones. While I understand no instruction was given to IAA ANSP to design the SID aligned to this modelling, I am sure you can understand that it now causes a challenge that...

Historic and Archaeological Heritage Bill 2023: Second Stage (25 Apr 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...own constituency, a large souterrain with script on one wall, which possibly dates back to as far as 500 AD, was discovered by a farmer who was sowing crops in Donabate in July 2022. The site itself rests on lands that are owned by a private developer. An application for a strategic housing development, SHD, of 1,365 units had been submitted to An Bord Pleanála in 2020. The...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...not one of the primary schools has been allocated it. It makes no sense given this is a town that is distinct in terms of its borders from any other town. It is not as if the primary schools are in a hinterland or a neighbouring town. They are in this one town and it does not make sense how DEIS can be ascribed to one secondary school and not one of the three primary schools. When...

Annual Emission Allocation Units Purchase Agreement: Motion (28 Mar 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...exactly what this agreement is. It is the Government spending €2.9 million to buy its way out of a problem. That is €2.9 million that could have gone towards helping our farmers change the way they use their land, public transport initiatives such as the Labour Party's €9 climate ticket and clean travel infrastructure, and investment in cleaner energy. Instead, it...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Site Acquisitions (8 Mar 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...for Education and Skills if she will confirm unequivocally that the search for a school site at a location (details supplied) is for the existing school; if she will provide an update on that land acquisition; if she will provide an estimated timeframe for when the school will be moved; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11651/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects (8 Mar 2023)

Duncan Smith: 129. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will provide on update on the provision of a new school building on existing lands for school (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [11652/23]

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

Duncan Smith: ...housing or public housing. That is not proper Part V delivery. We need to row back. Ultimately, Part V delivery is what got us into this mess. We need to see a proper public house-building scheme, and the Land Development Agency, LDA, needs to actually work and deliver. We must commence rapid compulsory purchase of vacant and derelict properties by local authorities, with targets for...

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...are present. We have seen, with the demonstration today and with the reaction from the public up and down this country to the proposed Gresham House deal, how strongly people feel about their woodlands, their ancient woodlands, which have been under pressure and under stress after centuries of mismanagement, and the woodlands that are yet to be. The previous Deputy spoke about the...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Aviation Industry (19 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...past couple of months. Some from the outside might say that they live near the airport, but that is not the reason these communities are angry. They are angry because these routes of take-off and landing do not comply with any of the routes set out in the 2007 planning permission for the north runway or any of the routes that were presented in multiple public consultations since. Has...

COP27: Statements (29 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...developing countries are the most adversely affected by the impacts of climate change. While we in the wealthy countries of the global north are still talking about prospective climate disasters landing on our shores, for many developing countries in the global south, the adverse effects of climate change have already arrived and with catastrophic effect. We have seen the flooding in...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: National Monuments (10 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 232. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will order the preservation of the recently discovered souterrain at lands in Corballis, Donabate, as set out in section 8 (1) of the National Monuments Act 1930, especially given the writing on the walls within the souterrain, which may be ogham or futhark and is of historic importance; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 482. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number, name and location of former military barracks still in State ownership; the amount of land in each of these barracks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54710/22]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces (8 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: 483. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the number, name and location of current military barracks in use by the State; the amount of land in each of these barracks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54711/22]