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Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Information and Communications Technology (5 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 1142. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans to protect his Department in the event of a malware attack or security risks as a result of the failure to upgrade computers from an operating system (details supplied) in his Department and the agencies under his remit; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44745/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Information and Communications Technology (5 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 1204. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the number of computers in her Department that still use an operating system (details supplied) in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44707/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Information and Communications Technology (5 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 1205. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if her Department will not be forced to pay additional premium payments to a company (details supplied) once support for an operating system expires in January 2020; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44723/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Information and Communications Technology (5 Nov 2019)

Alan Kelly: 1206. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans to protect her Department in the event of a malware attack or security risks as a result of the failure to upgrade computers from an operating system (details supplied) in her Department and the agencies under her remit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44739/19]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Naturalisation Applications (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 127. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of a naturalisation application by a person (details supplied); when the application will be finalised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43744/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the two delegates. I am fully supportive of the report which is an excellent piece of work. Like the previous speaker, I sat on the Committee on the Future of Healthcare for 11 months. It is welcome that the report endorses the journey we were on. This is totally doable. It is really about ideology. It is a "will we", not a "can we", question. It is welcome that the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Milestones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank Dr. de Buitléir and agree with him. In my next question I am asking for his personal opinion. I am aware that the terms of reference have been defined. I am a huge supporter of the national maternity strategy, but it is way behind. We are all aware of the issues surrounding the national children's hospital. There will also be other developments. Given that the Government...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: In fairness to the Deputy, he also raised it, but I am moving it on a little.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: It would seem to jar with Dr. de Buitléir's report.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: This is a significant moment for the committee. In fairness to the witnesses, the report is excellent, but this was not part of Dr. de Buitléir's terms of reference. The Government has committed to implementing this report, the Minister said he supported it, but now its author, in a personal capacity, has articulated the question: what is the point in having these facilities if we are...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I understand that, but personal views are important. We all have personal views.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: We have had the consultants' representatives before the committee. I do not wish to make generalisations because consultants have many different opinions, to which they are entitled, but there will be some opposition to going down the proposed route. Dealing with the pay issue will help considerably. There is significant support for dealing with that issue, recruitment and retention and so...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Rightly so. I agree with them.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Dr. de Buitléir made a specific point about that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Restricted, specialised posts.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: As per my question, we know about the pay issue, but is there any-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I agree. It is also a matter of working conditions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Would it be fair to say that dealing with the new consultants' entry pay levels, specialised posts and so on in tandem with working conditions would have to happen over the timeframe we are discussing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Private Activity in Public Hospitals: Discussion (23 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Did Dr. de Buitléir come across any other issues besides that? No significant ideological-----