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Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 422. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount her Department and associated agencies have spent on social media advertising since the beginning of January 2021 until 12 June 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32619/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 423. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount her Department has spent on social media content production since the beginning of January 2021 until 12 June 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32636/21]

Written Answers — Department of Rural and Community Development: Departmental Expenditure (17 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 424. To ask the Minister for Rural and Community Development the amount her Department and all associated agencies have spent on public relations consultancy costs since January 2021; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32653/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the European Council. [29775/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It was a significant meeting of the European Council in May. A strong statement was made on the diversion of the Ryanair flight to Minsk and the sanctions against Belarus. Those sanctions need to be very strong because what happened was unprecedented. I ask the Taoiseach to update us with any other information he has on that matter. Are we still on track to have the digital green...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Unfortunately, it happens.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: There are not enough people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I agree.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The criteria are tight.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it will next meet. [27894/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I am blue in the face raising the issue of maternity restrictions here. I have raised some very personal stories of friends and neighbours of mine. The situation is still ongoing. Pictures emerged at the weekend of partners queuing outside the Rotunda Hospital waiting to get in. It was crazy and barbaric. Partners are not able to attend scans or help their partners through all stages of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise three issues. First, in relation to the Delta variant, I welcome what Mr. Paul Reid communicated in the HSE update yesterday. With regard to the AstraZeneca vaccine, an issue I have been raising for weeks, ongoing communication is needed and the commitment needs to be honoured by 19 July. Have studies been commissioned or has the Government received a briefing on the efficacy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met; and when it will next meet. [27893/21]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I want to raise the issue of community employment, CE, schemes. In my county, Tipperary, I have had a range of people contact me on this issue. Last week, David Mulvaney in Ballynacargy, County Westmeath, eloquently outlined the situation there to me whereby if these schemes are not extended, many people whom the ESB is pushing towards getting major awards under the CE programme will simply...

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Howlin. More than 50 years ago, in the late 1960s, amid concerns about the high cost of housing for home buyers, a situation which has repeated itself several times since, the then Fianna Fáil Minister for Local Government, former Deputy Bobby Molloy, commissioned a report on ways to...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 15. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Economic Recovery and Investment will next meet. [30928/21]

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: National Security Committee (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 20. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a list of the membership of the National Security Committee; and when it last met. [29776/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [27895/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: A report in thejournal.iewebsite has said that the plan to build 400 multidenominational schools primary schools by 2030 has absolutely no interim targets and that there is no roadmap. Is this true? If not, then perhaps the Taoiseach will tell us it is not. These are so necessary and we in the Labour Party, including Senator Bacik and Deputy Ó Ríordáin, have fought for these...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the statement of strategy of his Department. [29457/21]