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Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 March 2023
2. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if he will outline his plans for a national strategy for sustainable aviation fuel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10363/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2023
99. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education following the announcement in budget 2023, if she will provide an update on the roll-out of solar panels for school buildings; how solar panel providers can tender for such work; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10324/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 1 March 2023
50. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Transport if there are any exemptions for a person (details supplied) in County Kildare in sitting an examination; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10359/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2023
669. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will clarify the reason the urgent care clinic at Connolly Hospital has changed operations and now requires patients to book appointments to be seen in the clinic; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10168/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2023
547. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that a hospital (details supplied) will put in place an appointment only service in its urgent care unit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9556/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 28 February 2023
387. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the reason a person (details supplied) has yet to receive the extra €10 allocated to those over 80 years who are claiming the State pension, as is the person's entitlement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9488/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 February 2023
267. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he has made a decision regarding Ireland's participation in the EU4Health Joint Action on Diabetes and Cardiovascular Disease; if the decision is not to participate in the joint action as a full member, if he will consider making a commitment for Ireland to become an observer member on this joint action, in order that the Government can track the benefits of the joint action with a view to future full participation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9356/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 February 2023
212. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if there are sufficient ambulance and paramedic staff in both the National Ambulance Service and Dublin Fire Brigade serving the Dublin area; if there are unfilled vacancies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9361/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 February 2023
211. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he is aware of any retention issues among emergency response paramedics in the health services. [9360/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 February 2023
210. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage if he will report on the waiting time figures for emergency calls for ambulances for the north Dublin area; the measures being taken to reduce them; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9359/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 23 February 2023
197. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Finance his views on overcoming the barriers affecting people requiring life cover who have been refused from life assurance companies due to underlying health conditions; if there are plans by the State to introduce life cover at a reasonable cost to policy holders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [9355/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 22 February 2023
207. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the up-to-date position on an application for funding for a section 39 organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8966/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
651. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will outline his information in relation the extent and causes of the current excess mortality rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8563/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
559. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Justice the plans he has for amendments to conveyancing legislation to make it a requirement that radon testing and, where necessary, remediation is compulsory before the sale of a home in a high radon area (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8295/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
535. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of receipts collected from the National Training Fund levy for 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8644/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
525. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the plans that exist to introduce a media campaign to attract young people to the construction sector similar to that undertaken for the tourism sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8643/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
524. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science if he will provide an update on clearance of Covid-related backlog and associated delays in processing new registrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8642/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
523. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of new trainers recruited since the inception of the action plan for apprenticeships; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8641/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
522. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of apprentices who have taken up full-time employment in Ireland following completion of their programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8640/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
521. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science the number of craft apprentices registered to date in 2023 under the action plan for apprenticeships; if he will provide a breakdown of new registrations by trade; the number of female registrations; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8639/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
485. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Social Protection the number of exceptional needs payments paid out over the past three years, by county, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8724/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
392. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education if her Department has any plans to add more special school places for north Dublin in 2023; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8303/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
363. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the number of females serving in the Permanent Defence Force; the number of same for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8721/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
362. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence the current strength of the Permanent Defence Force, by rank, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8720/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
361. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Tánaiste and Minister for Defence if recruitment is currently open to the Reserve Defence Force; if not, when recruitment will re-open; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8719/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
201. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Transport the current position regarding the national speed limit review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8723/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
169. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications if he will consider an issue that an electrical consumer (details supplied) is having; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8663/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
156. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the number of times the interdepartmental and agency group responsible for the National Radon Control Strategy met since February 2022; to provide dates for those meetings and a copy of the minutes for each of those meetings; the membership of the group; the attendance at each meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8294/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
155. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the plans he has to provide grant aid to homeowners to install radon barriers in older housing stock in areas with high levels of radon gas; if plans have advanced under the National Radon Control Strategy; the specific actions that he has taken in the past 12 months on this matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8293/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 21 February 2023
154. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications the actions his Department is taking to address the risk of lung cancer from radon gas which is estimated to be responsible for 350 cases of this cancer a year; if he has plans to implement radon testing of homes in high radon areas; if he has considered providing free radon testing for homes in those areas; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8292/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
374. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if his Department has agreed an increased cost with voluntary and private homecare providers to ensure all operators who provide homecare procured by the HSE can pay mileage and travel costs to carers as recommended by the Cross Departmental Strategic Workforce Advisory Group; the estimated increased cost to his Department; if the additional funding will be provided to allow these payments be made under the HSE's procurement of home care from voluntary and private sector; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7809/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
247. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for a breakdown of the uptake of the housing adaptation grant in 2022; the number of applications for the grant; the number of applicants that were approved for the grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8026/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
246. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage for an update on the waiting lists and waiting times for receipt of the housing adaptation grant; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [8025/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
197. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Finance if his attention has been drawn to the extreme rise in costs for motorcycle sport insurance and its effect on motorcycle racing this year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7804/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
175. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will provide details on the way people can access the drug cariban used to relieve extreme nausea and vomiting experienced during pregnancy; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7763/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
147. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health to provide an update, as of February 2023, on the recruitment of additional nursing staff; the number of new nurses that have been employed by the HSE; the number of nurses that have left the service in the last 12 months; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7766/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
116. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of HSE elective hospitals as per the recommendations of Sláintecare; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7767/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
112. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he will report on the uptake of the third Covid-19 booster vaccine. [7765/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
88. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health for an update on the provision of bereavement counselling services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7764/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 16 February 2023
84. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health for an update on the roll-out of the pandemic recognition payment to front-line workers not directly employed by the HSE; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7762/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2023
167. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of cariban prescriptions which have been processed through the drug payment scheme to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7493/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 15 February 2023
166. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason the drug cariban cannot beprescribed by a GP on the drug payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7492/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2023
657. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the level of expenditure on new medicines in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6780/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2023
656. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he has plans to introduce a national lung cancer screening service; if he has received any proposals for such a service; the projected annual cost for such a programme; the annual cost for each individual cancer screening service currently in place; the projected number of people each will screen in 2022 and 2023, respectively, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6779/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2023
515. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Justice the status of a naturalisation application for a person (details supplied); if he will expedite the processing of the application given the circumstances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7063/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 14 February 2023
376. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education the reason a university (details supplied) is the only university that is recognised to qualify to become a special needs teacher without holding a masters level degree in primary education; if she is taking any actions to resolve this given the teacher shortage; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [7397/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 February 2023
267. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health for an update on the implementation of the 2006 Labour Court ruling that pensions should be paid to section 39 workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6280/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 February 2023
266. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health for an update with regard to the payment of the pandemic recognition to staff administering vaccines in SouthDoc; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6279/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 February 2023
261. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason for the delay for patients (details supplied) awaiting orthodontic maxillofacial surgery for open bite, with current wait times of six to eight years and the prospect of losing teeth due to the unacceptable wait times for this surgery; to outline the way he proposes to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6242/23]
Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 9 February 2023
155. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Education if she will review the designation of a school (details supplied) with respect to being designated as a DEIS school due to the fact that it has a high number of students who come from socially and economically disadvantaged backgrounds; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6202/23]