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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is worth chasing up.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: The person should go and see what the roads are like in rural areas.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: In fairness, that is a different point.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: He is probably right.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Is the individual saying that roads are being resurfaced when there is no need for it to be done?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: This letter is highly inappropriate. I would not go so far as to say that there is an attempt to exert influence over the committee or nobble somebody, but it is not appropriate. I agree with the way in which the Chairman proposes to deal with it. If there are other instances of people trying to do this to the committee or to a member of the committee, we should deal with them in the same way.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Absolutely. However, for something like this to be published would be a very different matter.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: If it were published, we could have a mistruth being putting out on the basis of somebody's opinion or interpretation. It is our job as a committee to make the decisions on what transpires here. In this scenario, reference was made to what the individual in question said when he attended a meeting of the committee. That person might have a different interpretation of what was said, but he...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I support the Chairman in what he said about the National Council for Special Education and its processes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Process.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: The NTA will come before the committee next week.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It certainly raises issues.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Something in the back of my head is telling me provision was made somewhere on this but I am not certain.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is totally an NTA issue. I was there. The licences are centralised through the NTA and it does all-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Prior to the summer recess, the issue of Cork Institute of Technology, CIT was being addressed. I will speak to the clerk of the committee as a number of questions were asked and I would like to know whether they have been sent to CIT. I will speak to the clerk and find out. We need to remind the people in CIT that there are questions outstanding. I might provide correspondence to enable...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I do not think it was me.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I welcome some of my former colleagues. For the purposes of transparency, Dave Walsh was assistant secretary over climate change and environment and Terry Sheridan was in planning at the time I was in the Department. I was looking forward to the meeting today because, during my brief stint in the Department, this area was one where I would have loved to have had more time but,...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I refer to scenarios where somebody objects to a proposal, it continues with a referral to the board, the board makes its consideration, and the decision it makes is, in effect, the ultimate in agreement with the person who made the objection. In other words, the person objects to a development, that objection is dismissed by relevant authority - the county council - it is referred to the...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is not theoretical at all, but I will allow Mr. Walsh to go on.
- Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I will treat it as theoretical.