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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Yes. I will turn to the whole role of Tusla. Based on what Deputy Gannon said, we will be engaging with the Department on the report and all of that process separately, so I do not want to necessarily go into that aspect now because we will have other time to do so. Mr. French said there are - I am sorry, but the statistics matter - about seven cases a year. Am I right?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Mr. French also said that he "would recommend an independent unit within the organisation submit the application to suspend guardianship". What Mr. French is specifically saying is that within the organisation there should be a unit that is almost land-locked away from what he just said.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: In other words, a small unit would be able to deal with the necessity of all of these cases.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: It can extend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: It can extend.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Mr. French also said in his opening statement: "Tusla should not be involved unnecessarily [and I took that word 'unnecessarily' as very deliberate] when the children are not already in care, so there should also be a way for guardianship to be suspended on the initiative of another guardian or the children's relatives." The words or phrases in that I focused on were "unnecessarily" and "on...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Let us say there are no guardians. Let us paint that picture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: The initiative of another family member should be able to deal with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: That is what I thought.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I have one comment to make. We will come back to this with the Department officials but my observation is that the proposed Bill is complex but short. When we engage with the witnesses on the Bill separately after we get back, we might go through the issues relating to Tusla. We will want more definitive answers, rather than us going back to them all the time. It is not a very long Bill....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: No apologies have been received. Today, we are having ministerial engagement regarding key priorities and legislation in the Department of Culture, Communications and Sport. This meeting has been convened with the Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport, Deputy Patrick O’Donovan, and the Minister of State with responsibility for sport and postal policy, Deputy Charlie...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State. We have private business to get through as well so we will have to have a very rapid-fire round, if that is okay, where everybody gets one question. I ask the Minister and the Minister of State to keep their responses short, purely because we have less than 20 minutes left. Deputy Ó Snodaigh is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Update on Departmental Priorities and Legislation: Department of Culture, Communications and Sport (2 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I have one last question which has not been covered and I am trying to fill in the blanks. On the issue of gaming and animation, the Minister appears to be quite passionate about this, as am I. Working with Screen Ireland, there is a nucleus whereby all of these may come together. There is an opportunity here given the skills and output we have in this country; however, it needs strategy....

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I recently met MABS and was taken aback by the range of issues people had. I have listened attentively to what the Minister said today about cost-of-living measures. I acknowledge those actions. In the past three years, however, there have been a range of one-off cost-of-living measures in budgets, which have been welcomed. I want to get all the nonsense out of the way and ask...

European Union Regulations on International and Temporary Protection: Motions (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: It is concerning how we got to this stage today where we are dealing with these motions in the manner in which we are dealing with them. Frankly, it is unacceptable that we are dealing with such important motions in this haphazard way. The fact one of the motions had to be withdrawn by the Minister at the last minute just goes to show how shoddily this issue is being dealt with. Why was...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Staff (3 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 146. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is aware that his Department recently advertised for two internships at the Embassy of Ireland, Paris, for which the advertised rate of pay was €4.35 per hour, that this rate of pay is far below the minimum wage in either France or Ireland, that this rate of pay would not even come close to covering accommodation costs, and...