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Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 575. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the nationwide smoky coal ban will come into effect. [5414/17]

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I want to know the progress on the national clean air strategy, which is an issue close to my heart. For the information of Deputies, more people die due to the quality of air in this country than die in road accidents. It is a huge issue, and one on which we have made major progress. I would like the Minister to give us good news in regard to the...

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have good time for the Minister but, to be honest, that is not an answer. In fact, the Minister did not answer the question at all. We have lost 15 months on this. The Minister knows it is an issue that is close to my heart and that I introduced the clean air strategy, but, 15 months on, nothing has happened. The smoky coal ban which was to be in place for the 2017-18 season has now...

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I do not doubt the sincerity of the Minister. I am raising this issue because people feel let down. They have come to me as the former Minister with responsibility in this area. The strategy was to be announced by the middle of last year, if not before. The Minister has committed to a smoky coal ban by 2018 on the record of the Dáil. Since notification must be made one year in...

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: They are based in the Custom House.

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I look forward to the Minister's announcement. It will have to be in the coming days to meet those timelines.

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 38. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport to outline the reason he sanctioned the use of €58,556 by Fáilte Ireland in its recruitment of the new chief executive; the reason he allowed Fáilte Ireland to operate outside of the Public Appointments Service; and if this will be common practice throughout all the organisations under his Department. [6036/17]

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: In the recent past the Minister has sanctioned the appointment of a new chief executive of Fáilte Ireland. In doing so, the Minister allowed Fáilte Ireland to go outside the public appointments system to hire a private company. Fáilte Ireland tendered for the assignment and it cost the taxpayer €58,556. Why did the Minister sanction this? Why did the Minister sign...

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have it.

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. That was the answer I expected. I do not buy this rubbish to the effect that this was done before the Minister started. Actually, it was done in April and the Minister took up office in May. I would have expected that someone who chased these issues from the seats above not so long ago would have stopped this process and ensured that the PAS was used. I have...

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I would appreciate if the Minister answered the questioned I asked. He did not say he has confidence in PAS. I raised this issue previously. At the time, the Minister had not even met representatives from Fáilte Ireland. It took the Minister six months or so to meet representatives from Fáilte Ireland. Under the Acts, the authority has to get the Minister to sign off on the...

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is costing the taxpayer a great deal of money.

Other Questions: Fáilte Ireland Staff (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The taxpayer loses.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Airport Promotion (8 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 55. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his plans to reverse Dublin Airport's monopoly and ensure the national planning framework's target of having three quarters of population growth outside Dublin between now and 2040 is deliverable (details supplied). [5749/17]

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: The Minister said earlier that there was a 10% increase in the budget for these agencies as a result of Brexit. Obviously we all welcome that. I have four very specific questions for the Minister. I am looking for specific figures which, I presume, the Minister will be able to give me off the top of her head or else they will be in her supplementary notes. What is the total number of...

Other Questions: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I just ask the Minister for a reply.

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Brexit Issues (9 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 21. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if the IDA is adequately resourced to deal with the opportunities of Brexit; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [6344/17]

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Many people have asked the Tánaiste when she first heard of the allegations in regard to Sergeant McCabe. Maybe she should think about that for 24 hours and come back to us because she has not answered the question on numerous occasions. We need an answer to that. My main question is to the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality. Garda Keith Harrison has publicly come...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----would the Taoiseach and the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs - I am sorry now for breaking a bit of protocol - and also the leader of Fianna Fáil and its justice spokesperson be willing to meet Garda Harrison's representatives in the next 24 hours before the terms of reference are closed off in order to ensure that we get the proper terms of reference to what is an incredible...

Clarification of Statements made by the Taoiseach and Ministers: Statements (Resumed) (14 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I did not ask that of the Minister.