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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: Did that happen with Orkambi?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: The Minister intervened in the process by way of the clause to which Mr. Judge referred.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: The Minister can have a role here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: In fairness to Mr. Judge, I know he is in a difficult situation as a representative of the Department but, in a roundabout way, that means that the Minister intervened in this scenario. As many of my colleagues have said, most notably Deputy Brassil, political pressure creates the conditions which allow the Minister to intervene. That is just reality. Professor Barry has been very open and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: What is going to happen? How can we distinguish between two sets of women? There is a woman in Galway-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Evaluating Orphan Drugs: Discussion (Resumed) (21 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is pretty clear that we have an issue here that must be addressed.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I ask the Tánaiste the key outcomes from the recent British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference and the prospects for the restoration of a power-sharing Executive in Northern Ireland as a consequence.

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste. The intergovernmental conference will probably have to be upgraded post Brexit as we will not have the same formal or informal meetings with our UK colleagues. Was there any discussion about this? Obviously that is something we will have to look into. What practical steps are going to be taken in relation to the 2014 Stormont House Agreement on legacy issues?...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: British-Irish Intergovernmental Conference (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste for those replies. It has been said that there is going to be ambition as to how bilateral co-operation is maintained and strengthened post Brexit. The Tánaiste might outline how that will work. Are we considering a model like the Nordic Council of Ministers? How would the joint funding of projects go ahead etc.? How would EU rules be involved in that, or...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 577. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she retains full confidence in the chairperson and members of the board of Oberstown Children Detention Campus in view of the refusal of the chairperson and the board to publish a report (details supplied); and the correspondence she has received from the chairperson which alluded to a threat of resignations if the report was...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 578. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of an operational review of Oberstown Children Detention Campus by a company (details supplied). [47874/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 579. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of the legal advice sought and received by the board of Oberstown Children Detention Campus in relation to the publication of and matters arising from a report (details supplied). [47875/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 580. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the individual fees and expenses paid to the chairperson and members of the board of Oberstown Children Detention Campus for each of the years 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018. [47877/18]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child Detention Centres (20 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: 581. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she has received the 2016 and 2017 annual accounts for Oberstown Children Detention Campus in accordance with section 173 of the Children's Act 2001; and if so, her plans to publish same. [47878/18]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: His name is Martin.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: It is very disappointing that the Minister for Health is not here to deal with this and other issues. This is a particularly important issue. I want to know why a drug, pembrolizumab, is not being made available to cancer patients who require it. The issue has received a great deal of publicity in the context of the case of Vicky Phelan, to whom I spoke before I came into the Chamber for...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Medicinal Products Availability (15 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State. Obviously, I would prefer if the Minister were here. I appreciate the presence of the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, and I acknowledge that she is doing her best. Tomorrow, I have to go to the funeral of a young man and father of three children in Clonmel. He was trying to get on this drug, but unfortunately he never made it. May he rest in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses and thank the Minister of State for standing in for the Minister, Deputy Harris. I have some questions for Mr. Connaghan and others relating to the CervicalCheck issue which could be answered by Mr. McCallion or Mr. Connaghan. This will be a quick-fire round because we only have a certain amount of time for questions. Is Mr. Connaghan considering any structural...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I was waiting to hear that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (14 Nov 2018)

Alan Kelly: I presume Mr. Connaghan will put forward his thoughts to the board and is making considerations in that area.