Results 20,181-20,200 of 21,323 for speaker:Alan Kelly
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: How can we go to the public on this matter? For once, I am not blaming the OPW. The fact that the OPW was doing this was wrong. I have gone through all of the replies to my parliamentary questions - I submitted a pile of them on this - and the timelines put out in October 2022 involved a lead-in time of ten weeks for the first phase of 250 units. That is what it said. Did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: Of course it did not happen. I know it did not happen. I am just confirming it. I asked the Department of children, which had responsibility in this regard. I then asked the Department of public expenditure the same thing at the end of October. It stated that the initial 250 would be installed during January and February 2023. Did that happen?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: When were the first 250 units finally concluded?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: I am sure the witnesses have it.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: From ten weeks in the third quarter of 2022, it ended up, as I understand it, not just in the middle of 2023 but significantly later than that. There were the other 250 after that. What consequences were there for the contractor? Were there any consequences or was it all just blamed on the issues with sites? In other words, were the units delivered?
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: I know all about the Thurles site.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: We can check all of those out. For the benefit of members of the public watching these proceedings, a contractor came in to do work for the OPW. What has probably not been in the public domain is the fact that the contracts averaged out at €145,000 but that the actual cost averaged out at €442,000. This means a cost of €297,000 for site works. That is beyond...
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: They should not have been picked.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: I agree with Mr. Conlon on that. The OPW should never have been doing this but that does not save the taxpayers’ money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2023
Vote 13 - Office of Public Works (22 Oct 2024) Alan Kelly: We have the Land Development Agency Where was it in all of this?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: There was a recent meeting of councillors from the Nenagh municipal district with the new Garda superintendent. The cross-party group of councillors came out of the meeting pretty shocked because he more or less admitted that he did not have the resources in the Tipperary-Clare division to meet the requirements of the area. He was pretty matter-of-fact about it. He has to be admired for...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for reading the script. It does not really address my concerns. I appreciate he is not the direct Minister but 15,000 gardaí - when are we going to get realistic? There was a report on Dublin city centre recently where they want 1,000 more gardaí. It is laughable. There are gardaí looking to retire all the time. I know of gardaí who are now...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: An Garda Síochána (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate that.
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I had to grin earlier because, whenever the Minister is in the Chamber, I seem to have to go out to take a phone call about my father's healthcare. The work of the staff in both Limerick and Nenagh, whom I have been dealing with in the past few months again, has been exceptional. I acknowledge Dr. Scott, Dr. Sohail, Dr. Vijay, healthcare assistant Ray, nurse manager Louise, healthcare...
- Public Health Service Staffing: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (23 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: The Minister has misspoken a couple of times because he referenced it a couple of times. I have researched it. What date will it open? The second thing is that the community nursing home in Nenagh will be handed back to what it should be used for on the same day. The second thing is that medical assessment units, MAUs, are committed to going to 24 hours. When will that happen? The MAU...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Cathaoirleach and wish her the best of luck. She will be a fantastic Chair. I welcome everyone, particularly those who have been appointed in the last period of time. Best of luck to them. We need them all to be successful so I hope that they will be. I welcome those who have been around for a while as well. In fairness to the CEO, one thing about Mr. Gloster is that his...
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: I agree.
- Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2023: Health Service Executive (24 Oct 2024)
Alan Kelly: Especially Shannondoc at weekends.