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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I call Deputy O'Sullivan.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: As the guardian of this committee, I need the witnesses to accept something. I welcome this question and I will give time back to the Deputy. Obviously, as a committee, we completely reject and do not accept Mr. Courell's statement on that. Go ahead, Deputy.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, Deputy Cleere is asking a question which is pretty generic. He is not asking about any individual case.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Safeguarding Policies and Procedures within the Football Association of Ireland: Discussion (24 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I understand that. My point is whether they ever go to other members of the senior management team or directorate, or whatever, for a period of time before they come to you?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: The Minister of State is one of the more diligent Ministers of State when it comes to trying to be genuine in his answers. I have been asking parliamentary questions for months looking for a date for when this is to be opened. The Minister has not provided me with that and it is the Minister who is responsible, not the HSE. The Minister is answerable to this Dáil in this Chamber and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: So do I.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Nursing Homes (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am glad to see the Minister of State back in here because we spoke about this in March so I am sure he is fully on top of it and has some good news for me. This issue is very personal for me. I have said here before that I fought for this. St. Conlon's Nursing Home was very personal for me. Many members of my family had their last days there. It provided an incredible service and the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I want to revert to the issue of children. I acknowledge the changes that the Minister has introduced and I support many of them. There were serious issues in relation to the onslaught of the number of people coming here. The initial process by which contracts were given for accommodation left a lot to be desired. It did need to be cleaned up. The vast amounts of money being spent were...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I acknowledge that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: Yes, so do I. That is my point. What happens in those cases?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I agree with the Minister on that, and I accept that changes have been made to the number of people being brought in, etc. However, in scenarios and cases like that, should we not be looking at them differently? Eventually, with all the Minister's work, it will get to the point where all of these cases are being dealt with in a speedy way and we will not have this issue. However, I am...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am not saying that. I am saying we need some form of rule whereby after whatever amount of time it is, we accept we have failed as a State in regard to how we process these people and, as a result of that failure-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: We can create rules and conditionality around co-operation. My point is that, in all fairness, where a case is genuine and it has gone on for whatever length of time we agree, whether it is four or five years or whatever, is it acceptable for the State to send people back when it has let those people down as regards the process? I accept the argument that people might elongate the process....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: Let me ask another question, seeing as the Minister's official wrote that note. Can he provide the number-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: The Minister will not be able to answer it but he can come back to us on it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: If he can do so, he will be incredible. How many children who were under 16 when they arrived in Ireland are currently in IPAS accommodation for more than three years, four years, five years, six years and seven years? I would appreciate if the Minister could get back to the committee in writing on that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: I did not expect to go on so long on that point. I move now to my next question. I have a local electoral area, LEA, breakdown of all international protection and Ukrainian refugees across the country. I have four or five of those breakdowns because I asked the question four or five times. It took me a long time to get that information. It took the guts of four or five months, working...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: What are they?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: International Protection Accommodation Service: Minister for Justice, Home Affairs and Migration (23 Sep 2025)

Alan Kelly: Is it being done now?