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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: My request of the Taoiseach today is a positive one. Eighteen months ago, doctors, nurses, healthcare assistants, laboratory scientists and multiple other workers across our hospitals and primary care system faced a nightmare scenario with regard to Covid-19. Our healthcare workers reported to the front-line of the fight against Covid-19 with little or no personal protective equipment, PPE,...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: I genuinely accept what the Taoiseach says, but the time for platitudes is over. I know a couple who are working in the healthcare service and have a number of children. Childcare cost them thousands of euro, even with family help and a discount. I know of a nurse who was clamped multiple times and whose neighbours volunteered to pay the fines for her. I could tell the Taoiseach stories...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: If the Government gives the HSE the capacity to do this, it will do it. Will you please do that? At this stage, we have - have to - to acknowledge the work and efforts of all these workers. Platitudes, I am sorry, do not work anymore. That does not show respect.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Passport Services (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 69. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if an application for a passport by a person (details supplied) will be expedited; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36683/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 113. To ask the Minister for Health the regional breakdown of transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement procedures performed throughout the State on a regional and hospital basis. [30248/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 9. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work, role and staffing of the recently established social dialogue unit in his Department. [33147/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will ask about two priorities for this unit. A motion from my Labour Party colleague, inner-city Councillor Kevin Donoghue, was passed by Dublin City Council last night. It was a very interesting motion on something we have been pushing to have considered for some time. It called on Dublin City Council's chief executive to engage with trade unions representing council staff with a view...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: It certainly would not suit us.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Is it something the Taoiseach would consider and this unit will look into? That is what I am asking. Does the Taoiseach endorse it? We all have to rebalance our lives after the pandemic. The second issue, which I do not have time to dwell on, is that of a catch-up programme for schools. My colleagues, Deputy Ó Ríordáin and Senator Bacik, have been pushing this for some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet Committee on Government Co-ordination last met; and when it will next meet. [33146/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Has the co-ordination committee discussed antigen testing at all? The reason I specifically ask is this co-ordination committee co-ordinates things, I presume. It seems there is quite a divided and confused approach across the public service regarding antigen tests. As the Taoiseach knows, I have been raising this issue since last October, when we were still in Leinster House - it is so...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Will the Taoiseach confirm to the House whether the new revised national development plan, NDP, will be published before the recess next week? Along with other Deputies and Senators from Tipperary, I had a meeting with Tipperary County Council yesterday evening where there was deep concern that the N24, a very important strategic corridor supported by all the local authorities, could be...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Waterford to Cahir and Cahir to Limerick Junction proposals are going forward. Will the Taoiseach commit that this strategic corridor will remain part of the NDP?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 553. To ask the Minister for Health the procedures provided to patients who are covered under the general medical scheme for the treatment of heart valve disease; the proportion of such patients treated using transcatheter aortic valve implantation and surgical aortic valve replacement procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30245/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 554. To ask the Minister for Health the number of private patients treated in public hospitals for heart valve disease; the proportion of patients treated using transcatheter aortic valve implantation versus surgical aortic valve replacement procedures; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [30246/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: 555. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department or the HSE have taken a position on the HIQA recommendation contained in its health technology assessment of trans catheter aortic valve implementation in patients with severe symptomatic aortic stenosis at low and intermediate risk of surgical complications published in November 2019; if these recommendations will be adopted and...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: What about hospitality?

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (1 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will ask about antigen testing in more detail. The chief scientific officer, Professor Mark Ferguson, did the report. It was never implemented because of issues in relation to NPHET. He suggested serial testing was very effective in respect of opening up society, particularly for travel, but obviously, we are now dealing with issues relating to hospitality and other industries....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: We are not at all.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: On the decision made by Government this week in regard to the Covid restrictions and where we are going, the manner in which it happened was embarrassing. I know what it is like to be in government. I have been on both sides of the fence in this House. I know issues arise, but on behalf of the Irish people what happened was embarrassing. It was chaos and it was unacceptable. Ministers at...