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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: There was another independent report done by Dr. McKenna and sent in. This is going nowhere and it needs to change track fairly fast. I would be happy if the Minister could just indicate that it is being taken care of. The Minister does not have to give-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: When?

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of becoming an Irish citizen for asylum seekers claiming refugee status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40236/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if all correspondence between his Department and the national paediatric hospital development board since 1 February 2019 will be provided. [40231/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General get it checked and come back to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is worth chasing up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: The person should go and see what the roads are like in rural areas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, that is a different point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: He is probably right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Is the individual saying that roads are being resurfaced when there is no need for it to be done?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: This letter is highly inappropriate. I would not go so far as to say that there is an attempt to exert influence over the committee or nobble somebody, but it is not appropriate. I agree with the way in which the Chairman proposes to deal with it. If there are other instances of people trying to do this to the committee or to a member of the committee, we should deal with them in the same way.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely. However, for something like this to be published would be a very different matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: If it were published, we could have a mistruth being putting out on the basis of somebody's opinion or interpretation. It is our job as a committee to make the decisions on what transpires here. In this scenario, reference was made to what the individual in question said when he attended a meeting of the committee. That person might have a different interpretation of what was said, but he...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I support the Chairman in what he said about the National Council for Special Education and its processes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Process.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: The NTA will come before the committee next week.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: It certainly raises issues.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Something in the back of my head is telling me provision was made somewhere on this but I am not certain.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is totally an NTA issue. I was there. The licences are centralised through the NTA and it does all-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Prior to the summer recess, the issue of Cork Institute of Technology, CIT was being addressed. I will speak to the clerk of the committee as a number of questions were asked and I would like to know whether they have been sent to CIT. I will speak to the clerk and find out. We need to remind the people in CIT that there are questions outstanding. I might provide correspondence to enable...