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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (22 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: On that point, it is time the Minister, Deputy Michael McGrath, and the Minister for the Environment, Climate and Communications, who is responsible for energy, look at this issue on a pan-European level. This issue is not just going to be in Ireland; it is going to be everywhere. The Minister might update the House on what the Government has done in that regard. This is coming down the...

Residential Tenancies (Tenants' Rights) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank Deputy Bacik and our housing spokesperson, Senator Rebecca Moynihan, for their work on this Bill. This is a critical issue that came up for Deputy Bacik during the Dublin Bay South by-election, and we committed to bringing forward this Bill on foot of that. We have honoured our commitment in this regard because during the by-election campaign it certainly came across to us how...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Tánaiste was Taoiseach when I raised the issue of a €1,000 bonus for front-line workers last year. He will be aware that the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, has also looked for a bonus or annual leave. We do not need to rehearse why the people who worked on the front line deserve this bonus. The Workplace Relations Commission, WRC, could not be engaged by the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: Respectfully, the Tánaiste was being open enough but I did not get much comfort from his answer. In the context of our energy supplies, brownouts and blackouts, what contingency plans are being put in place? I understand this is a real fear, particularly if we have a very harsh winter. We cannot predict anything with climate change. Can the Tánaiste confirm to the House whether...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: Is it ever going to stop, a Cheann Comhairle? Every single day - are you ever going to do anything about mobile phones?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is just continuous.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: The two caricatures again. Enough. Social welfare rates have not increased for two years and tens of thousands of people are out of work. We have multiple warnings about electricity blackouts due to rising demand from data centres and two gas plants are closed for maintenance. As the Tánaiste is aware, we recently had amber alerts in this area. Gas prices are soaring across...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: Moving on from that sideshow, the cost of living is dramatically increasing and as the Tánaiste can appreciate, it is going to hit electricity and gas prices pretty hard. This will also have major consequences for renters and on food prices. In August, inflation hit a three-year high of 3%, which is the highest it has been since 2008, and according to all economists it is only going in...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Economic and Social Council (16 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 18. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will report on the publication of the NESC Report No. 154 Digital Inclusion in Ireland: Connectivity, Devices and Skills. [33503/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Eating Disorders (16 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 278. To ask the Minister for Health the number and type of referrals, the number of assessments by gender and the breakdown of diagnosis in 2019 and 2020, for patients with eating disorders managed outside of the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44260/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Eating Disorders (16 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 279. To ask the Minister for Health the access times for both assessment and treatment in 2019 and 2020 for persons with eating disorders treated outside of the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44261/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Eating Disorders (16 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 280. To ask the Minister for Health the number of patients treated outside the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders in 2019 and 2020 that were admitted as an inpatient in the HSE mental health unit, acute hospitals, private hospitals and via the treatment abroad scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44262/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Eating Disorders (16 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 281. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons being treated for an eating disorder in 2019 and 2020 outside the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders who were discharged to reliable or partial recovery, to general practitioner and primary care, or who died due to the condition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44263/21]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Eating Disorders (16 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 282. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a standardised operational transition process in place across CHOs for young persons transitioning from CAMHS to adult services who are receiving treatment with eating disorders outside of the National Clinic Programme for Eating Disorders; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44264/21]

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: That is nothing to do with the issue I raised.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is a very serious situation.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: I ask the Taoiseach about the comments of Judge Elizabeth McGrath in one of my local papers today relating to secure mental health facilities across the State. She has called it a scandal. The issue relates to a young man whose mother I spoke to today. She lives in fear. Her son spent four and a half months in jail because, as a State, we could not find a place for him in a secure mental...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: I deliberately asked the Taoiseach this question today because I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt that there is a learning here for his Government as regards all the areas and how it does its work. It is also important that, as I stand here and ask the Taoiseach that question, I say quite clearly that short-termism has to end. We need to deliver on Sláintecare over the next...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: It has been a turbulent summer for the Taoiseach and his Government, so I am glad to see they actually made it back here. There is a sense of some normality as we finally come back into this Chamber. That is what I want to ask the Taoiseach about. I have a direct question: What has changed since we left this Chamber last year? What has changed for the Taoiseach and his Government in how...

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Covid-19 Pandemic (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: 64. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if his Department will call on the European Union to support a temporary TRIPS waiver on Covid-19 vaccines, medicines and diagnostics at the upcoming WTO meeting. [43383/21]