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

Duncan Smith: ...central to bringing the movement along was the CEO of the office of tobacco control, the late Tom Power. He was an active member of the Association of Higher Civil and Public Servants who, along with Pat Montague and my colleague Deputy Nash, met many union leaders and encouraged them and explained how the tobacco industry operates in terms of recruiting the next generation of smokers...

Health Service Funding: Motion [Private Members] (24 Oct 2023)

Duncan Smith: ..., I have heard from a number of my constituents and from organisations all over the country who have expressed their worry about the lack of mental health services funding going into the new year. Ministers are patting themselves on the back this week for a slight increase in some services but that is not what the services on the ground are reporting back to me and my colleagues. A total...

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

Duncan Smith: ...two to three weeks. I ask that the review, such as it is, take place urgently and the results be stated soon. I hope they will show that the ban can be extended. Two to three weeks would take us up to St. Patrick's Day, which would be two weeks shy of the ban's first cliff edge on 1 April. We all know what happens around the Oireachtas on St. Patrick's week, that being, very little....

Forestry Strategy: Statements (26 Jan 2023)

Duncan Smith: ...This deal has their fingerprints all over it and I am sure they are delighted to finally be getting their wish of privatising forestry after they were blocked from doing so by the former Minister, Mr. Pat Rabbitte, and the Labour Party on their last attempt almost a decade ago. We have the scars on our back and know exactly how Fine Gael feels about forestry in this country and where it...

Drugs Policy: Motion [Private Members] (30 Nov 2022)

Duncan Smith: ...individual had problematic drug use. Given my mind was in preparation for this debate today, what I saw spoke to one thing, which was the indignity with which that young man was treated. He was being searched and he was being patted down with his arms out. He had no bags or anything with him and he was wearing a tracksuit. When it got down to the mid-section of this young man, the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (5 May 2021)

Duncan Smith: ...can amend and strengthen that on Committee and subsequent Stages. There is little faith that it will be strengthened. I want to highlight what happened in Lough Boora last week. A local man, Pat Barrett, built up a bike rental business over the past decade. A contract has now been awarded to a Dublin company by Bord na Móna. A just transition, if it is to work and to be...