Dublin Fingal East — week of Mon, 5 Dec

What your Dublin Fingal East TDs did this week

Mon, 5 Dec – 11 Dec 2022 · 3 TDs · 1 bill voted on · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying filings

Votes this week

Air Transport Agreement

2022-12-07 · 1 vote

The motion · motion passed 76–46

Voted for 1 Darragh O'Brien

Voted against 1 Duncan Smith

Did not vote 1 Ann Graves

Ann Graves — Sinn Féin 0 votes · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Quiet week — no questions filed or new lobbying returns.

Darragh O'Brien — Fianna Fáil 1 vote · 0 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Duncan Smith — Labour Party 1 vote · 17 questions · 0 new lobbying returns

Questions asked 17 total

Health 16 questions
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the number of women and babies who have been discharged into the care of homeless services from maternity hospitals in the past three months; and the number who have been discharged in need of emergency accommodation but with no accommodation to go to. [60354/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if there are figures from the maternity hospitals on the number of additional night's stay that were necessary for women and children in maternity hospitals due to the mother and child having no accommodation to go to. [60355/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the up-to-date position with medical card patients availing of dental appointments and procedures given the notice many of them are getting that their current practice is withdrawing from the service; the steps he is taking to put this in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60856/22]
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the-up-to-date position with medical card patients availing of dental appointments and procedures given the notice many of them are getting in County Kildare (details supplied) that their current practise is withdrawing from the service; the steps he is taking to put this in place; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60857/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the timeframe for a citizens' assembly on drugs policy (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61090/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the status of the waiting lists for orthopaedic and urology surgeries for disabilities which become more painful and inoperable over time; the actions that he is taking to reduce these lists; and if he has met with an organisation (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61095/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the up-to-date position regarding medical card patients availing of dental appointments and procedures (details supplied); the measures that he is putting in place in respect of the matter; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61092/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he plans to introduce legislation to allow a mobile supervised injecting centre while the approved injecting centre is being delayed; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61094/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the status of the work carried out by a person (details supplied) on the report into the Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy Act) 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61091/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he plans to make hormone replacement therapy, HRT, medication free for persons going through menopause; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61093/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated amount in euros that has been saved by his Department from moving from branded to generic medications in each of the years 2019 to 2021 and to date in 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61496/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the volume of packs of unlicensed medicines that are being brought into the market to alleviate medicine shortages; the estimated cost of these unlicensed medicines per annum; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61497/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the average time taken by the HSE to decide on applications for medications to be added to the reimbursement list; the average time taken to adjudicate on hardship cases where manufacturers are seeking price increases due to inflationary costs; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61498/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if he has plans to enhance the functionality of the reimbursement approval process to improve efficiency in decision-making and thereby secure additional sources of medicines, in particular generic medicines, onto the market, in the context of the increasing medicine supply shortages; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61499/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the reason that some branded medicines have not been required to be reduced in price following the approval of a generic equivalent, as required by the 2021 industry agreements; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61500/22]
- 2022-12-08 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health if a higher reimbursement price is granted to unlicensed medicines than the licensed version of the same medicine; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [61501/22]
Housing 1 question
- 2022-12-06 Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Housing, Local Government and Heritage when a project (details supplied) will be completed and opened; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [60858/22]