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Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: I am glad the Bill has come before the Dáil following the need to bring it forward and given the need to transpose the EU directive. There has been some controversy in the lead-up to this and I am glad to have the opportunity to contribute on it. Events over the past year or so have really driven home the importance of a thriving and sustainable indigenous agrifood sector. With...

Veterinary Medicinal Products, Medicated Feed and Fertilisers Regulation Bill 2023: Second Stage (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: What is rare is wonderful.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: Okay, I do not mind. To be fair, it is a little confusing because there are three sets of amendments to the initial set of amendments. In any event, we will work through them. On the basis of discussions we have had, I probably will not press my amendment, but the spirit of it was based on ensuring there would be a full understanding of what was required to ensure there would be open...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: We are happy. It would probably be helpful if we could let the Minister continue.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: He is motoring.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister. I also thank the Acting Chair, Deputy Funchion, for indulging all of us in this debate. It was necessary for the Minister to provide that outline. Perhaps we can pull back and put a structure on this amendment. I will not be pushing the Labour Party amendment but I seek clarification one or two minor matters. Based on the new amendment the Minister has brought...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: Will the Minister put in writing that his understanding and interpretation of the new amendment he is proposing in section 7 to provide for an obligation to inform patients of their right to make a request for a Part 5 review, specifically subsection (2) which he read out, is that anybody who has been diagnosed with cancer will be told within a reasonable timeframe that they will have a...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: Deputy Sherlock has just taken the Chair. We are ad libbing a bit because we are getting through the Bill quicker by doing it this way. You could give him a bit of time, Acting Chair.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: That is what I understood.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: There were some issues with the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. That is the reason I ask.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: To bring you up to speed, Acting Chair, we started off with the amendment tabled by me and Deputy Duncan Smith. Based on the Minister's contribution and the way in which he has dealt with this, we will not be pushing it. We will support the Minister's amendment.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: We will be supporting the amendment as well. I respect everything the Minister said and the manner in which he has dealt with this issue. This Bill has been broadened out. The reason we need a vote on the amendment to bring to people's attention the fact that this matter has to be dealt with. Deputy Shortall quoted the Scally report. The fact that we have not had progress is ridiculous....

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: Serious experience.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: I want to thank everybody. I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the way in which she dealt with this. I thank the Minister for the way in which he engaged. I thank his officials and particularly thank the Deputies who sat through this, Deputies Cullinane and Shortall, for the way that we have dealt with this Bill. For me, on a personal level, this is probably the most important piece of...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Official Engagements (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: 104. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he met with the CEO of a company (details supplied) during his recent visit to the west coast of the United States. [6673/23]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Revenue Commissioners (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: 184. To ask the Minister for Finance if funding will be provided this year to purchase two additional mobile X-ray scanners for the Revenue Commissioners; and if he will seek EU funding to cover some of these costs. [6682/23]

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Air Corps (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: 298. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence when he expects the two new C295 maritime patrol aircraft to come into the Air Corps fleet. [6683/23]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Capital Expenditure Programme (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: 330. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if any capital works projects under the remit of her Department received EU funding in the years of 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023; if so, the name of the capital works project; and the amount of EU funding received per capital project, in tabular form. [6676/23]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Data (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: 493. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of persons arrested and charged with dangerous driving within the Tipperary Garda division in the years 2021, 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [6670/23]