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

Alan Kelly: What type of organisation audits it?

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,...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Eligibility (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 222. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if there is a precedent for children eligible for school transport but who are unable to attend their nearest school due to bullying to allow them to be eligible for the service to the next nearest school; and if not, his plans to implement same. [24324/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Retirements (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 223. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retirements confirmed for a school (details supplied); the number of these retirements that relate to management or non-teaching posts; and the number that relate to teaching posts. [24325/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teacher Retirements (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 235. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of retirements confirmed for a school (details supplied) in County Kilkenny; and the number of these retirements that relate to management or non teacher posts and teaching posts respectively. [24486/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 306. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on a person's (details supplied) appeal of the decision not to award them a disability allowance. [24032/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 324. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if, in the event of a person in receipt of disability allowance taking up employment that places them above the means threshold, there is a period of time whereby they can return to receiving disability allowance without a new application if the employment is terminated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24198/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 330. To ask the Minister for Social Protection when a decision will be made on an appeal of the decision not to award disability allowance to a person (details supplied). [24279/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Records (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 456. To ask the Minister for Health when Beaumont Hospital will publish all freedom of information requests and respective responses on its website; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24186/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 492. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence by which the legislation was concluded for guidelines (details supplied) to exist around vaping products under the TPD, in view of the fact they are not a tobacco product; and the assistance an organisation (details supplied) or retailers can give to the Departments to help bring about effective and relevant legislation regarding the products...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Electronic Cigarettes (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 507. To ask the Minister for Health the evidence used as the basis for the guidelines for vaping products in the Tobacco Product Directive 2014/14/EU, in view of the fact they are not a tobacco product; and the assistance that the IVVA and retailers can provide to Government to bring about effective and relevant legislation for these products. [24484/17]

Select Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Competition (Amendment) Bill 2016 [Seanad] [Private Members']: Committee Stage (23 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Chairman for facilitating me. This is a very important Bill for the Labour Party. As the Minister knows, the originator of this Bill was the current President. It was Michael D. Higgins who initiated the original version of this Bill. It goes back a while. The spirit of the Bill, with which we all agree, is very important for the people who are affected and the Bill allows...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Literacy Programmes (24 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 60. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans for the reading recovery programme in DEIS and non-DEIS schools. [24012/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Disability Allowance Appeals (24 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 191. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the status of a disability allowance application by a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [24997/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Within a half hour of it being sent out, the phones were hopping with people asking for this, that and the other. We cannot work this way. I do not know what the Chairman can do about it. There are many people who are not yet here but I ask the Chairman to speak with everybody on the committee individually. We will get more documentation that will be highly sensitive. We are talking...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (25 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: Effectively, it had a documentation room.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: National Mitigation Plan (30 May 2017)

Alan Kelly: 150. To ask the Minister for Finance the specific actions he has taken under the the Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Act 2015 to contribute to the national mitigation plan. [25693/17]