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- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: He is written to or emailed - it is usually a registered letter - to tell him that he did not turn up for work and his salary has been deducted. I do not think this is happening to every other prison officer who gets leave from local line management, who are not the problem here. He obviously has issues and has raised them in a protected disclosure, the timelines of which, as Deputy...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Chairman.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: I could not agree more.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: While the Chairman wants to deal with these matters in general next week, this letter is a joke. I am glad we have it. It is making the situation worse for the Department and the HEA. I do not know who is pulling whose chain here. Did the HEA consult with them? On what basis was the letter written? It is full of contradictions based on the evidence we have seen here on multiple...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: I propose that we hold the matter over for one week. I have tried to arrange a discussion with Mr. Love for the past week regarding information I need to tell him. Unfortunately, we have been unable to find time to talk. The committee should hold off on making a decision for a week in order to allow time for more clarity. I believe that the Department, the HEA and CIT have serious...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: It is absolutely abhorrent that the Department of Education and Skills would stand over this matter and then state that in mirrored circumstances, it would be okay to do the same thing.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: I appreciate the sentiment but it is a very strange comment.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Ultimately, women's issues are very important to the Labour Party, as are the social agenda and the progression of women's rights and their role in our society. However, the best person has to be picked. I am sorry but his or her gender is irrelevant to me. The Chairman and I get on fierce well but the idea that we would tell those responsible to give higher marks to women candidates is...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Can we do it next week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Will we allocate an hour next week?
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Agreed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes, 100%. Follow the money.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: It was a part-time role.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Just for clarity, in the context of whether Dr. Flannelly stepped aside or resigned, I am with the Chairman on this but I want to tease it out a bit. A consultant operates in the public and private spheres. The public sphere is headed by the HSE so in that sense, a consultant is contracted to the HSE, so there is a line. As a committee, can we leverage that line in order to ensure that she...
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: "Employed" might not be the right word.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Yes. On the second individual, as I understand it, he just moved into a different role so he is still employed.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: In that scenario, why he cannot appear is beyond me.
- Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)
Alan Kelly: Agreed.
- Topical Issue Debate: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Jul 2018)
Alan Kelly: I ask the Minister to investigate what is blatantly obvious to anyone who knows the industry, namely anti-competitive practices by large brewing companies in Ireland. They are abusing their scale or market dominance to have basically exclusionary deals with publicans, large-scale publicans in the main. Large brewers are providing free stock, advance discounts, capex or cash investments to...
- Topical Issue Debate: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Jul 2018)
Alan Kelly: The White Gypsy Brewery. I will give the Minister of State a few bottles.