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Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act further to regulate in accordance with the principles of social justice and to delimit by law the exercise of private property rights, insofar as such exercise gives rise to the assessment of compensation payable by local authorities in respect of the compulsory acquisition of development land, with a view to reconciling the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: For a number of weeks now, I have been raising an issue on behalf of more than 500,000 people, those who have got their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. These are mostly 60-year-olds to 69-year-olds but they also include some over 50s, some of whom are in cohort 4 and some healthcare workers who got it earlier. These people are in some cases the most vulnerable but they will have the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise a very sensitive matter this morning relating to the mother and baby homes. Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the decision of Professor Mary Daly, one of the members of the commission, to appear at an academic event in Oxford, having previously refused to come before the Oireachtas children's committee. She appeared at the event yesterday. Devastating revelations and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. He went much further than the Taoiseach yesterday and I respect that. There are two aspects to this. Calling on the commission members to appear in front of the Oireachtas children's committee should absolutely happen but we know we are limited in whether they will or will not do that. They should do that. However, there is a more fundamental...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Why not tell people that?

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Labour Party is also putting its name to amendment No. 2, along with the Independent Group. The powers that the Minister is asking us to extend are draconian in any form and nature and I assume the Minister accepts that. In any normal time, it would not even be countenanced in a normal democracy. However, we were not in normal times and it was necessary during the pandemic. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is over a week since the Ryanair plane was forced to land in Belarus, which led to the detention of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega. The US now joins with the European Union in imposing sanctions on Belarus over its campaign to crush critics of the President of Belarus and its diversion of the Ryanair aircraft so that anti-Government activists could be arrested. I want to get an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: What about equalisation and the leaving certificate?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: And the leaving certificate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [29456/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the national reform programme. [27892/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will make three points. First, yesterday we got the national recovery and resilience plan. The Government will have to reconsider what it is doing in relation to PUP, particularly for those in the arts and entertainment industry and a number of others sectors which will not survive if the Government continues with this cut. I think the Taoiseach knows that. It is also an opportunity to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service. [27891/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: There has been significant spend on public information campaigns during the pandemic, although we can all accept there was a necessity for public health reasons. The Department of An Taoiseach roughly estimated that €20 million has been spent since 2020. For example, €1.4 million was spent on online advertising, with a further €500,000 in 2021. Up to the end of April,...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I was enjoying that. We all know there is so much hurt out there felt by the survivors of the mother and baby homes and their families. They feel let down by the report of the commission. They also feel let down that the three members of the commission would not come before the Oireachtas children's committee to discuss their findings. Last night, however, Oxford University advertised...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Why are they going to Oxford?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Is it not strange?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I know.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.