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Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Hear, hear.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Hospital Accommodation Provision (29 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Hear, hear.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (29 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for coming in. Deputy Rock and I tabled this Topical Issue matter to discuss the pressing importance of this critical infrastructure, the metro, for Dublin. It is not just about my constituency, the inner city or Dublin Airport but the entire city. MetroLink is a project which is warranted and required by the city and will be seen in the future. We believe that the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (29 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I thank the Minister for his response, although, with respect, we did not ask him to intervene in the route alignment. He is quite right that no southside Deputies involved themselves in the route alignment issue on the northside, but this was primarily because it was so quickly resolved. My sincerely held view is that this project will be delayed for perhaps a year because of the ongoing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (29 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: It is about supporting a piece of critical national infrastructure-----

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Rail Network Expansion (29 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: -----that we must deliver.

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Second Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I am pleased to have the opportunity to contribute on this Bill. I could not agree more with Deputy Murphy's reference to non-conforming use. There are quite a number of non-conforming properties that have residential zoning but commercial use, but since they are over the 12 year limit, councils cannot pursue them. We should pursue that issue. I drafted a Bill on this subject a number of...

Local Government (Rates) Bill 2018: Second Stage (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Who could that have been?

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 106. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a permanent school site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4469/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Site Acquisitions (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 107. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a permanent school site for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4470/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of a new school building for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4471/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 109. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of new permanent classrooms at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4472/19]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of the delivery of new permanent classrooms at a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4473/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: I welcome members and those viewers who may be watching the proceedings on Oireachtas TV to the public session of the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs. The purpose of the meeting is to discuss the non-publication of the operational review report on the Oberstown Children Detention Campus. In the first session today, the committee will hear from the authors of the report,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Thank you, Professor Goldson, for your opening statement. I wish to put some quick questions in advance of Deputy Rabbitte making her contribution. For context, is it your belief or understanding from the terms of reference in the contract you have with Oberstown, Professor Hardwick, that as a contractual term the report should be published?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Have you been paid for your work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Have you been paid in full for your work?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Thank you, Professor Hardwick. That was exactly the answer I was looking for to a question I had not asked. You have made your position clear in respect of straying into matters of policy and your interpretation of the terms of reference provided. Do you have an understanding of the difficulty that presents in terms of what the Minister said to us in December with regard to straying from...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: Is it Professor Hardwick's view that to cite the report straying into matters of public policy is not relevant to the context in which the report was based and actually adds to the thrust of the report?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Oberstown Children Detention Campus Operational Review Report: Discussion (30 Jan 2019)

Alan Farrell: The committee has made that position very clear from the get-go. In fact, we had a lengthy discussion about it already. I appreciate the professor adding more context to the opening statement. I call Deputy Rabbitte and then Deputy Mitchell.