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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I will ask the Taoiseach about staffing levels in UHL. The Government has said that it is committed to doing everything it can in this regard, hence Mr. Justice Clarke's report, which is due out soon and which I presume will recommend a level 3 hospital given the Minister's statement in recent weeks. There are 183 nursing positions vacant despite some derogation from the embargo. What is...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: The Minister of State is a good person but that response, by and large, is a standard reply. I contacted his officials, as he will be aware, this evening to let him know that I would read into the record this agreement from November 2019. I cannot state this any clearer. If the Department, which, granted this, in 2019, was the then Department of Justice and Equality, cannot honour the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Did they have a letter like this?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: It is in black and white.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: International Protection (21 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: The matter I am raising is unique. We all know that the issues surrounding asylum seekers and refugees in our country are significant at the moment, but the town of Borrisokane, County Tipperary is unique. The Minister of State visited it and met people there. Unfortunately, various protests have been occurring across Ireland from time to time. In Borrisokane, though, the people are up in...

Delivering Universal Healthcare: Statements (15 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: It will be no surprise to the Minister what I am going to raise with him. I welcome his announcement last week regarding consideration for a model 3 hospital in the mid-west. It is so obvious. The Mr. Justice Frank Clarke report into Aoife Johnston's passing is imminent. I hope that the former Chief Justice will actually recommend same. I hope that will help the Minister to make such a...

Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: The Minister of State is a decent man and a decent Minister of State, but the Minister for Transport or a Minister of State in the Department of Transport should be here to conclude this debate. It should be a rule of the House, with all due respect. There is a bit of passing the buck between the Departments of Transport and Justice, the Department of housing in conjunction with local...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: The streets of my home town Nenagh will be packed on Saturday with people protesting against the Government and the HSE and the scandalous decision to take over our new nursing home, which the Government of which I and the Taoiseach were a part actually funded. On 24 April 2024, I raised this issue with the Taoiseach in this Chamber. I asked him where the loved ones of the 50 families were...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (8 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Before Saturday?

Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I very much welcome this debate. We should have had it, though, some time ago. I will not lay all the blame for that at the Minister's doorstep considering how early Easter was, St. Patrick's Day and the appointment of a new Taoiseach, etc. There was a lot of time taken up in not being in here and with other business. As the Minister is probably well aware, I live in the midst of a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I was delighted to hear in the Taoiseach's maiden speech that he would "ensure a step change in how we care for our elderly". As the Taoiseach is aware, this is completely at odds with the decision of the HSE to annex the new 50-bed nursing home unit in Nenagh which was built because the St. Conlon's community nursing unit was effectively condemned by HIQA and has to be closed. I am aware...

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am glad the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, is in the Chamber to take this motion. I thank Sinn Féin for bringing it forward. The issues around general practice and primary care are obvious to anyone who is a public representative. The burden on GPs is so enormous that we need an all-encompassing contract for them whereby they would be provided with all the services they...

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: No, I watched it.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I do not know the Minister well personally but I have always found her to be fine. However, I have to say that I have found her to be very much a hands-off Minister. I said previously that when she equivocated in relation to people paying their licence fee that was a sign of how she was handling this issue, and it was not good. I also said previously at the public accounts committee that...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I want to ask the Minister about Nenagh community nursing home. I announced funding for this nursing home, which will be the most state-of-the-art nursing home in Ireland. Funding was provided in 2016 and it went for planning in 2019. We built it beside the hospital in Nenagh. The Minister for Health, in May 2022, told me it would be open by the middle of 2023. The construction and so on...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: He has come back in the last two weeks and told me he does not have a date.

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I thank Sinn Féin for bringing forward the motion. However, the Labour Party will not support it. I have been around a while. This motion is probably one of the most amateur I have seen, which surprises me. I say that with all sincerity. Frankly, it is a crazy motion that is not very well written. There are lots of holes in it. The figures, and the Minister alluded to this, do not...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: -----which is rather unfortunate.

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I will let ye speak lads. Do not try to shout me down. It will not work. This amateur, populist way is not what Ireland needs right now. It is not what the taxpayer or those who believe in public service broadcasting, such as the Labour Party, believe is needed. At the end of the day, things have to be paid for. Populist nonsense in this country-----

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Are you finished?