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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Agreed.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: It was not the HSE but the Department. I asked a range of questions and the Secretary General made commitments that he would come back to us quickly with answers. It has not happened. A week or two weeks is fine but I want answers before we go into recess. Can the Chairman write to him or ring him? These are basic questions.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Three weeks ago. I could be wrong and it could be two weeks. They are pretty basic questions that he said he would come back to us about straight away but he has not done so. For me, as somebody who is trying to create a jigsaw with many little pieces on a number of issues, the fact that he has not replied is worrying. I would like direct answers to my questions, please.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I would say it was a quarter of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I know that it is very topical. Deputy Catherine Murphy has raised it before and asked for Bord na gCon to be brought in. I support bringing it in about the issues within our remit, which relate to how it spends its money and its corporate governance, not about animal welfare, which is more an issue for the Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I wish to raise one other issue. A number of weeks ago, we received a reply about companies in Cork Institute of Technology, CIT. I was never happy with it. I spent a few weeks trying to dig down into it. I have done much analysis. With the permission of the Chair, I will ask some questions of the Higher Education Authority, HEA, and CIT. I will put them in writing to committee members...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate it. I wanted to put it on the record here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I support the Chair in this regard. Obviously, there is a threshold in relation to the volume of spend here. While we cannot go outside our remit, there is an issue here in relation to how that spend is dealt with. Very few people here in the committee know that there was a review done of An Bord Pleanála which has been published, but as far as I remember has never really been looked...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: Agreed.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Data (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: 271. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the schools put in the school building capital plans for new schools or large extensions in each of the years 2011 to 2018 and to date in 2019; the schools built; and the status of each of the other schools in tabular form. [30930/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cancer Screening Programmes (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: 538. To ask the Minister for Health the details of the 16 laboratories reported in the second Scally report; the locations of each; the dates of each visit by the doctor and their team; and the attendees from the team at each visit in tabular form. [30819/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Correspondence (11 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: 548. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of all correspondence between his Department and a person (details supplied) will be provided. [30896/19]

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: The word “waiver” needs to go. It is the wrong word. It has different implications than what the Minister intends. I say that genuinely. It has been raised with me, as it has with Deputy Donnelly and other Members. It is a deep concern. I have read this provision numerous times and I get different interpretations. On several occasions, the Minister stated that the High...

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not legally qualified no more than the Minister is. My legal advice is that the provision does not make sense. On the basis of what the Minister just said, I presume he is accepting my amendment. To be honest, I believe our drafter has made it clearer. The measure just seems to be another string in the bow which is not required. I think the Minister has justified accepting my amendment.

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Minister has proved my point.

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is a totally different thing.

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is not the-----

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: They cannot play God.

CervicalCheck Tribunal Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (10 Jul 2019)

Alan Kelly: They cannot.