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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, the spark here was down in Cork, so obviously that is one CHO. If we are adding a second one, let us agree to it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: It is not a question of whether we request but of who we request. Basically, we should be requesting those who are responsible at CHO level. If we have two of them in here, or three, if we decide that, we can do-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: In 2015, in a previous life, I commissioned the only ever analysis and review of An Bord Pleanála. There was quite a volume of recommendations. I have been keeping an eye on the recommendations and the number that have actually been actioned and implemented. In advance of the meeting on 14 July, we should ask the secretariat to write to An Bord Pleanála so it can give us, a week...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: No. Treble that, I would say.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: It is not that detailed a piece of work. I and other Deputies have looked for status updates over years; so it is a rolling thing. An Bord Pleanála has this work - Deputies should trust me when I say that - but it should, in advance of the meeting, update the schedule. Then we can all, in a timely manner, look at all the recommendations to date and see why An Bord Pleanála has not...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: It was actually an independent review.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: Yes

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: I suggest we come back and-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (30 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: As regards bringing focus to this, having the regulator before us subsequently would be better. We want to differentiate, but it would be a good idea to have the regulator before us post 14 July.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes (13 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: 367. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans, if any, to review the rates of pay for community employment supervisors who have not seen a pay increase in over 13 years (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [38482/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: 2. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps that he is taking to ensure that equitable funding is being given to the smaller horse racing tracks in Ireland; and his views on whether all current tracks are viable into the future. [38833/22]

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: What actions is the Minister taking to ensure the equitable funding of smaller horse race courses, in particular?. There are serious concerns for their future viability. Are they viable? There are concerns about data and media rights and how they are being distributed and whether that is equitable. What actions are being taken to ensure that there is equity in the distribution of funding,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I have a concern over how equitable the media rights contract is. Appearing before the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and Marine on 15 June, the CEO of HRI said that it is taking the market rate. I believe this is incorrect. Since the transfer from the Turf Club, its take has more than doubled from 7% to 16%. The corresponding...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: We need to dig deeper into this and consider smaller racecourses such as Thurles and Kilbeggan. The reality is that HRI has mainly used racecourse revenue received through the media rights fixture charge on capital programmes on the four largest racecourses, two of which it owns, at the expense of smaller rural racecourses. The Minister previously gave the direction that 50% should be used...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: Some €8,000.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses. I have a number of different questions. The officials all know because they were there, but for clarity Mr. Walsh was assistant secretary when I was Minister, though in a totally different area, to be fair. I commissioned the organisational review under Gregory Jones in 2016 because I believed it was necessary as it had never been done before. We had never had a...

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: Hold on a second. What was going on for the last six years prior to this review?

Public Accounts Committee: 2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
An Bord Pleanála - Financial Statements 2020
Vote 34 - Housing, Local Government and Heritage (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: I understand that but surely within the Department, there would have been over a period some suggestions to the Government that we have to deal with these issues. For instance, one request I have is that the officials give us the dates and minutes of any ministerial management advisory committee, MINMAC, meetings over the six years referenced in this review.