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An Bille um an Séú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht 2018: An Dara Céim (Atógáil) - Thirty-sixth Amendment of the Constitution Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: For me, repealing the eighth amendment is about trusting women. It is also about trusting men. I might also say that it is about trusting the electorate and legislators. That is what we are here to do. We are all honoured to be elected as Members of these Houses and it is our job to deal with this issue which has been outstanding since 1983. As I stated previously, I fully support the...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Pay (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 131. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the timeframe for the report on the costings of pay equality (details supplied) to be published. [12174/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 147. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the mechanisms in place to monitor the performance of the Office of Government Procurement and of the impact of its decisions on small and medium sized enterprises supplying goods and services to the State sector [12471/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Departmental Reports (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 148. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to publish reports (details supplied). [12472/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 149. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when he plans to publish the report of the independent external review of the tender advisory service of the Office of Government Procurement initiated in 2016. [12473/18]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Government Procurement (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 150. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the SME working group of the Office of Government Procurement has not met since February 2017. [12474/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of Government Procurement (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 399. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her Department or agencies under its aegis have received reports or representations in respect of the impact on small and medium-sized enterprises of decisions made by the Office of Government Procurement; and if so, the action she has taken is respect of same. [12469/18]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Office of Government Procurement (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 400. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if her attention has been drawn to the disquiet among small and medium-sized enterprises engaged in the supply of goods and services to State entities of the impact on them of decisions made regarding the awarding of contracts by the Office of Government Procurement. [12470/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Remuneration (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 490. To ask the Minister for Health if health care workers who could not attend for work during the recent severe weather at Our Lady's Hospice, Harold's Cross, Dublin 6, will receive emergency leave with pay and will not have to make up time as per his commitment to health care workers; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12127/18]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme Data (20 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: 849. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of unsuccessful applications for sports capital grants in 2017 by county; the number of applications funded on appeal by county; the names of the organisations awarded grants on appeal; the amounts awarded; the reason each appeal was successful; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12256/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: I will not get through one tenth of my questions and do not want them to overlap with those of other members. There has been much forensic analysis. Does Ms Feehily see some patterns in how senior management in An Garda Síochána provide information for the Policing Authority?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the quality of information provided on fixed charges, breath tests, the Garda College and homicides. The next issue is the juvenile liaison programme.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: The quality of information provided is not up to standard.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: I put up my hands. The legislation from which the authority works is not fit for purpose. The powers of the authority need to be extended. I had sympathy for Ms Feehily when she talked about how she had tried to influence the Department of Justice and Equality and the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform to get around certain issues. On the issue of ICT, which Deputy Wallace...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: I ask Ms Feehily to give it her best shot.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: May I make some suggestions? We are caught for time, and I am not trying to be rude. I have great personal admiration for the work Ms Feehily has done previously, but I am not satisfied that the evidence that has been given is consistent on this issue. I am not satisfied that the Garda Commissioner's Gmail account was not being used. I am not satisfied that assistant commissioners and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: My point here is that the authority was going through a process, and here was a report that admonished chief superintendents who subsequently had to meet the authority to point out that a circular from an assistant commissioner existed telling them they did not have to reply. With regard to giving evidence to the authority itself, does that not make a mockery of the evidence being given to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: But it does exist?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Garda Oversight and Accountability: Policing Authority (21 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: Even at this juncture-----