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Banded Hours Contract Bill 2016: Second Stage [Private Members] (5 Jul 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...being placed on a higher band, this will be reflected in a revised written contract of employment. This goes some way and also provides protections for small businesses which are just beginning to feel the benefits of economic recovery, but it does not appear to include allowances that exist in current banded hours agreements for peak and for off-periods, particularly surrounding...

Protection of Life in Pregnancy (Amendment) (Fatal Foetal Abnormalities) (No. 2) Bill 2013: Second Stage (30 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...welcome. I hope and believe the debate we have here and the one that will follow, through various media, will be conducted in the same way, namely, with dignity, regardless of the various personal feelings of Deputies and public representatives on this highly sensitive issue. I am proud that we in the Labour Party can say we opposed the introduction of the eighth amendment into the...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: Further, it is my fundamental belief as a former SIPTU shop steward that people have a right to feel safe and secure in their workplaces. The Government must legislate to provide statutory redress for the victims of workplace bullying. I wish to highlight the rights of workers beyond PAYE employees. We must support small businesses, local enterprises and the self-employed but this...

Appointment of Taoiseach and Nomination of Members of Government: Motion (6 May 2016)

Alan Kelly: However, I wonder how the people of the north west, particularly the Deputies who represent Sligo, feel today, given that they do not have even one permanent one in their area. These grubby little deals will all have to be published in full so that the public and this House can see every single detail down to the last comma. If any Independent comes in here and says something else that is...

Climate Change: Statements (4 May 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is great to see such a large crowd here today. I feel like calling a quorum, but I will not. This is probably the most important issue facing us in the world and not one single representative is inside the Chamber. I am sure the Acting Chairman will agree it is incredible and he may wish to speak to people about it. I find it deeply ironic that this House is debating climate change...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (28 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...finishing on Deputy Daly's points. One has to remember that from the Department's point of view, it is the local authority that comes forward and actually decides. It is the local authority that feels it is appropriate and the right thing to do. From that point of view, we have to work with the local authorities to ensure that this happens. On the recommendations, we need to decide as...

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Rental Accommodation Scheme Criteria (21 Apr 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...Equal Status Act 2000 has recently been amended to prohibit discrimination in the letting of residential property to people who are in receipt of Rent Supplement or Housing Assistance Payment (HAP). Persons who feel they have been discriminated against by on the housing assistance ground, or any other protected ground, in relation to the provision of accommodation may wish to contact the...

Housing and Homelessness: Statements (22 Mar 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...time. I have seen at first hand the upset, strain and stress that problems with housing cause for people and their families, particularly the most vulnerable. Our homes should be places where we feel safe and secure, rather than a cause of stress and worry. For this reason, when I took office in the summer of 2014, I made housing my number one priority. I was under no illusions that...

Housing and Homelessness: Motion [Private Members] (17 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...of the misery merchants of the cranky austerity alliance with the triple A title, which really stands for Against Absolutely Anything or anything that does not get them headlines, is to keep people feeling like victims, to keep them in poverty-----

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Wind Energy Guidelines (5 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...This is a complex issue. I am very strong on the need for proper, good planning guidelines. I am well aware of the issues, projections and the type of turbines that are being planned. While I feel the need to ensure we have proper planning guidelines on it, we also need to ensure we get it right. The analysis is ongoing and I expect it to come to fruition in the near future.

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs and Controls (22 Oct 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...that warrants a review. Tenants must be given 28 days’ notice of new rent and can make an application for dispute resolution to the Private Residential Tenancies Board (PRTB) where they feel the rent increase is in excess of the market rent. These provisions have effect notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in a lease or tenancy agreement. A shortage of supply is at the...

Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (30 Sep 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...on Committee Stage, taking on board what Deputies said on Committee Stage. I am not sure if the Deputies opposite were there at the time. While I know this will probably not be enough for them, I feel it is a fair compromise. It is the bare minimum necessary to allow robust mitigation policy measures to be developed and to be made subject to strategic environmental assessment and...

Environment (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2014: Report Stage (Resumed) (2 Jul 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...cannot plan on the basis of reliable and clean water supplies over the next 30 years, they will not invest in this country. That would impact on jobs and real people's lives. Would the Deputies feel a sense of responsibility to those people? I am averse to debates on the rural-urban divide because I lived for many years in Cork and Dublin.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Irish Water Establishment (11 Jun 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...except itself and possibly another party with which it may have discussed putting forward this submission. In many cases I think its assumptions are wrong obviously. As the Deputy knows, I feel very strongly on the whole issue of public ownership. That is the bottom line.

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...it is against their agenda. That is not the politics of this Government, nor should it be the politics of any Government. We want to empower people through work, not through victimhood. We want to ensure Ireland is a success. Ireland was a failed state but it no longer is. The challenge now is about sharing the recovery, making people feel it, not establishing it. Economic progress is...

Water Charges: Motion [Private Members] (24 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...order to build a home, the water system needs finance to be effective. Many of those across the floor have questioned whether there is a recovery. They do not see that recovery because they want people to feel like victims. Some 40,000 full-time jobs were created in this country last year. Over half of these resulted from the efforts of IDA Ireland and Enterprise Ireland. The salaries...

Topical Issue Debate: Litter Pollution (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: .... I assure Deputy Kitt that while a renewed agreement is under consideration, it is not something that will simply go through on the nod. It is something that I will consider deeply. If we feel that we need a change of tack or need to consider levies or any other measures, we will do so.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Electoral Commission: Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (10 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...the publication of the consultation paper on the establishment of an electoral commission in Ireland. I said then, and have repeated many times since this is an issue of the highest priority. I feel passionately about it because the establishment of such a commission is long overdue. I am here to listen to the views of committee members as parliamentarians and as practitioners with...

Seanad: Establishment of Electoral Commission: Motion (4 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: .... I would love to have five years in this job. This is an issue which is a huge priority and something to which I am personally committed because I believe it is necessary and has to be done. I feel very passionate about it. In December I told the Members of this House that I was working on a detailed policy paper and would bring it to Government. I said that I planned to publish the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (Revised) (3 Mar 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...authorities and as it is rolled out it will become more successful. That is why we have made certain provisions. PPPs were another issue he raised. The issue is the value we can get. We feel we can get very good value from PPPs, in terms of what was thought of them in the past compared to now and the models in Britain and other countries. We have had a substantial amount of...