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Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (1 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the role of his Department in the north east inner city initiative. [26503/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Urban Development (1 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The north east inner city task force has done extraordinarily good work but there is more work to be done. How much is the Taoiseach engaged in the programme of implementation? Has the Department or the Taoiseach been briefed on whether the Rutland Street School community hub project has gone to tender yet? When is work expected to start? If the Taoiseach is engaged, he will be able to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 11. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his most recent engagements with the social partners. [26235/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (1 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise two key issues with the Taoiseach. My colleague, Senator Bacik, has introduced a Bill in the Seanad to provide for paid reproductive leave. This would provide for up to 20 days of paid leave for early miscarriage and ten days for those availing of IVF treatment and fertility programmes. Will the Taoiseach confirm that this Government will support this Bill, address this issue...

Maternity Services: Motion [Private Members] (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank Deputy Connolly and her colleagues for bringing forward this motion, which we will support. I note the Deputy's track record on this because I know we have been raising similar issues for many years. I am disappointed the Minister left just before I began to speak. Perhaps he was afraid I was going to remind him of what he said in opposition regarding all these issues because it...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I was enjoying that. We all know there is so much hurt out there felt by the survivors of the mother and baby homes and their families. They feel let down by the report of the commission. They also feel let down that the three members of the commission would not come before the Oireachtas children's committee to discuss their findings. Last night, however, Oxford University advertised...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Why are they going to Oxford?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Is it not strange?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I know.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 2. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the Government Information Service. [27891/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Government Communications (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: There has been significant spend on public information campaigns during the pandemic, although we can all accept there was a necessity for public health reasons. The Department of An Taoiseach roughly estimated that €20 million has been spent since 2020. For example, €1.4 million was spent on online advertising, with a further €500,000 in 2021. Up to the end of April,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the national reform programme. [27892/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will make three points. First, yesterday we got the national recovery and resilience plan. The Government will have to reconsider what it is doing in relation to PUP, particularly for those in the arts and entertainment industry and a number of others sectors which will not survive if the Government continues with this cut. I think the Taoiseach knows that. It is also an opportunity to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: What about equalisation and the leaving certificate?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: And the leaving certificate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [29456/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is over a week since the Ryanair plane was forced to land in Belarus, which led to the detention of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega. The US now joins with the European Union in imposing sanctions on Belarus over its campaign to crush critics of the President of Belarus and its diversion of the Ryanair aircraft so that anti-Government activists could be arrested. I want to get an...

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Labour Party is also putting its name to amendment No. 2, along with the Independent Group. The powers that the Minister is asking us to extend are draconian in any form and nature and I assume the Minister accepts that. In any normal time, it would not even be countenanced in a normal democracy. However, we were not in normal times and it was necessary during the pandemic. We...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Projects (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 87. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will extend the N24 Waterford to Cahir project constraints public study beyond the 1 June 2021 deadline in view of Covid-19; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30001/21]