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Ceisteanna - Questions: Anglo-Irish Relations (10 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Last weekm the Taoiseach stated it would be reckless and irresponsible for the UK to trigger Article 16. As we all know, tensions continue to rise. A meeting between the EU negotiator, Mr. Maroš Šefčovič, and Lord Frost on Friday ended without any form of agreement. It is reported today that face-to-face talks are taking place this week between senior Irish and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: I ask about the ongoing booster programme. I support what it delivers for over-60s, under-60s who are compromised and, when we have European Medicines Agency, EMA, approval, hopefully children as well. Does the Taoiseach believe we will have a booster programme for the remaining population early next year? Would he support that? Will he ask the national immunisation advisory committee,...

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (10 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: I was deeply sorry to learn of the death of Austin Currie late yesterday evening. He will be remembered, above all, as a politician of conviction and somebody who stood up and was counted and never, in a long career, allowed any form of intimidation to get in his way. He showed huge courage as he strived to bring peace to our island through his service to the people he represented,...

Ceisteanna - Questions: United Nations (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: 14. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his attendance at the United Nations General Assembly. [48291/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: 6. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on progress towards implementing the citizens' assemblies committed to in the programme for Government. [53389/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens' Assembly (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: When will the citizens' assembly on drug use be established? There has been call for action on the tsunami of crack cocaine addiction in south-west Dublin. The issue has been all over the airwaves and it will become bigger and bigger in the years ahead. It is not isolated to Dublin. Ailbhe Conneely has covered the issue in depth for RTÉ, as the Taoiseach is probably aware, over the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will you meet them?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Unions representing the community and voluntary sector have lodged a 3% pay claim and are seeking improved terms. As I am sure the Taoiseach appreciates, these workers are the glue that holds our community together. Section 39 organisations, and home help and home care workers, represented by SIPTU, Fórsa, the Irish Nurses and Midwives Organisation, INMO, and the Irish Congress of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: The High Court decided that. It did not decide but threatened to decide it.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach knows what I am saying.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: The court did not decide it. It threatened to.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: We do not technically have an energy problem. We have a great deal of potential energy in this country, given the amount of wind that we have. Our problem is getting it into the grid. There is potential but we do not actually have it. The Taoiseach knows, more than anyone else in this House, about bad politics and regulation failure when it came to the banking industry. We have an issue...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Did the banking regulation work 15 years ago? When something is seen, it has to be called out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Call it out.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: The lights going off.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: It will not be a problem.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: Finally, can the Taoiseach give some comfort to those renewable energy projects, such solar and offshore, that the regulatory system will be fit for purpose? To date, and over the last five years, it seems that has not been.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: I am not jumping to conclusions.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: It did not go ahead.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (9 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: I raise the issue of the Minister, Deputy Ryan. It does not relate to his double, strange PCR tests. We know we are dealing with a Covid crisis and, potentially, a Brexit Article 16 crisis. However, if the Taoiseach and his Government colleagues cannot keep the lights on or the houses warm this winter nor plan for industry and inward investment, that is the rock on which they will perish....