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Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: The witnesses might write to the committee to clarify that - that since this new machine was installed, no samples have been sent outside Limerick.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: To run it on 31 February is some achievement.

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: We always have to think locally. Mr. Creed gave very passionate evidence. I will not reopen old wounds; we will agree to disagree. The €31 million might not be absolute. I accept it could be another figure. The analysis does not correlate to the horse racing industry, which did not go through the same ups and downs as the greyhound industry. I will not reopen old wounds. We...

Public Accounts Committee: Bord na gCon: Financial Statements 2015 (Resumed) (18 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: The secretariat will do all that. I thank the witnesses for their time. They have been here for two days. I thank them for their time and engagement on this issue. On behalf of the Committee of Public Accounts, I thank the witnesses from Bord na gCon and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine for the material they supplied to the committee. Unless there is any other business,...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (16 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for his efforts in reading that out. As I said earlier, a political charge was made. In June 2015, the CEO of the company came and spoke very well to the workers. I regret, however, that a senior member of Bord na Móna did not come down to meet the workers to tell them they were losing their jobs. It is unacceptable that a senior representative of the...

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (16 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I find it incredible that a Minister of State at the Department of Health who is from inner city Dublin, although, in fairness, originally from Galway, as I found to my cost in a recent national league final, is dealing with this question.

Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (16 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Surely one of the Ministers was available from the appropriate Department. I ask for the indulgence and support of the Government for the workers in the Littleton Bord na Móna factory. A political charge was made against me on the floor of the House today by the leader of Fianna Fáil which was, frankly, childish. I know that he wants to run away from discussing the Garda...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Are they available to members?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: There is a difference between being provided and available.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is not small at all. It is very serious.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Well done.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: There are a few issues we must discuss before proceeding. The matters raised last week are serious not just for the Committee of Public Accounts but for the State. I have the transcript of last week's meeting and I have read it a couple of times. It is incredible to do so in conjunction with the documents that Mr. Barrett has now sent us. It is like a jigsaw but the problem is the pieces...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I will not repeat what has been said. I agree with everything the previous speaker said. This is no witch-hunt. We have to do a job here. This is a constitutional committee. We need to get to the bottom of what is going on here. I know we cannot go back forever. We have to concentrate on the current Accounting Officer, who happens to be the Garda Commissioner in this instance. Even...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Can we agree what we are doing next week?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Can we correspond with the clerk on any evidence or witnesses, etc.?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: At what time are we coming back?

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the witnesses for coming in today. To carry on with the car analogy, I appreciate that the Department is not a back seat driver but it is our job to make sure that the Department makes sure that the Garda Commissioner and senior Garda management are passing their NCT every year but from what we are reading, they are not. I am going to ask a series of questions and would appreciate...

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, he referenced the year but he did not know the month. I would not have expected him to know the month-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: There was a meeting in June 2008 attended by those mentioned by Mr. Waters and by Mr. Waters himself-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2015 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriations Account (Resumed)
Vote 24 - Justice and Equality (Resumed)
Chapter 6 - Procurement and Management of Contracts for Direct Provision (Resumed) (11 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----but Mr. Waters has no recollection of it at all.