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Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will the Taoiseach support it?

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his recent meeting with the UK Prime Minister. [29458/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: British-Irish Co-operation (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is a month since the Taoiseach met Boris Johnson and vowed to work with him on Northern Ireland's future in the aftermath of the Ballymurphy inquiry report. He described it at the time as a constructive discussion. However, things have deteriorated incredibly since then and there is deep concern across a whole range of issues. Last Sunday, Mr. Johnson said he would do whatever it takes...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 5. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the statement of strategy of his Department. [29457/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Strategies (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Three of the Taoiseach's key strategic priorities for his Department are securing our future after Covid-19, restoring the economy and strengthening our place in the world. I want to refer to two very different issues. The first is something that has been raised continually in the House, namely, aviation. We all know the issues relating to Stobart Air and the loss of 480 jobs, the regional...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 11. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on education last met; and when it will next meet. [27895/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: A report in thejournal.iewebsite has said that the plan to build 400 multidenominational schools primary schools by 2030 has absolutely no interim targets and that there is no roadmap. Is this true? If not, then perhaps the Taoiseach will tell us it is not. These are so necessary and we in the Labour Party, including Senator Bacik and Deputy Ó Ríordáin, have fought for these...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person must relinquish their UK driver licence in order to receive an Irish driver licence from the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32009/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person must carry out a driver test in Ireland in order to be in possession of both an Irish and UK driver licence following the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32010/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on plans for reform of Seanad Éireann. [30931/21]

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: Second Stage [Private Members] (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to share time with my colleague, Deputy Howlin. More than 50 years ago, in the late 1960s, amid concerns about the high cost of housing for home buyers, a situation which has repeated itself several times since, the then Fianna Fáil Minister for Local Government, former Deputy Bobby Molloy, commissioned a report on ways to...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I want to raise the issue of community employment, CE, schemes. In my county, Tipperary, I have had a range of people contact me on this issue. Last week, David Mulvaney in Ballynacargy, County Westmeath, eloquently outlined the situation there to me whereby if these schemes are not extended, many people whom the ESB is pushing towards getting major awards under the CE programme will simply...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met; and when it will next meet. [27893/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise three issues. First, in relation to the Delta variant, I welcome what Mr. Paul Reid communicated in the HSE update yesterday. With regard to the AstraZeneca vaccine, an issue I have been raising for weeks, ongoing communication is needed and the commitment needs to be honoured by 19 July. Have studies been commissioned or has the Government received a briefing on the efficacy...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The criteria are tight.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on health last met; and when it will next meet. [27894/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I am blue in the face raising the issue of maternity restrictions here. I have raised some very personal stories of friends and neighbours of mine. The situation is still ongoing. Pictures emerged at the weekend of partners queuing outside the Rotunda Hospital waiting to get in. It was crazy and barbaric. Partners are not able to attend scans or help their partners through all stages of...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Unfortunately, it happens.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: There are not enough people.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I agree.