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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: That is not appropriate. I never said that so the Taoiseach is answering a question I did not even ask.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: For many weeks and, indeed, months, I have been raising the same issue with the Taoiseach in regard to people in the 60 to 69 age group, some people in cohorts 4 and 7, and also some healthcare workers, all of whom were vaccinated with AstraZeneca and who initially had a 14-week wait for their second dose and then a 12-week wait. I am not an immunologist or a scientist, and nor is the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 296. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person must relinquish their UK driver licence in order to receive an Irish driver licence from the Road Safety Authority; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32009/21]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Driver Licences (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 297. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if a person must carry out a driver test in Ireland in order to be in possession of both an Irish and UK driver licence following the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32010/21]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Seanad Reform (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 640. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will report on plans for reform of Seanad Éireann. [30931/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Grant Payments (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1088. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he plans to reverse the decision to include the pandemic unemployment payment in SUSI grant applications; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32011/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Vaccination Programme (15 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1089. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if students who avail of Erasmus or study abroad programmes for the upcoming academic year will be provided with a Covid-19 vaccine ahead of the 2021-2022 academic year; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [32012/21]

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State. Our mental health service capacity was in crisis before Covid-19 first arrived on our shores. The pandemic has only further exposed the gaps that exist in our mental health system. As it stands, more than 2,500 children are waiting for access to child and adolescent mental health services and over 10,000 people are waiting for a psychology appointment through...

Mental Health During and Post Covid-19: Statements (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for confirming that. A pathway towards some mental health beds in my own county would also be welcome.

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: "That the Bill be taken in Private Members' time."

Acquisition of Development Land (Assessment of Compensation) Bill 2021: First Stage (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act further to regulate in accordance with the principles of social justice and to delimit by law the exercise of private property rights, insofar as such exercise gives rise to the assessment of compensation payable by local authorities in respect of the compulsory acquisition of development land, with a view to reconciling the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: For a number of weeks now, I have been raising an issue on behalf of more than 500,000 people, those who have got their first dose of the AstraZeneca vaccine. These are mostly 60-year-olds to 69-year-olds but they also include some over 50s, some of whom are in cohort 4 and some healthcare workers who got it earlier. These people are in some cases the most vulnerable but they will have the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will raise a very sensitive matter this morning relating to the mother and baby homes. Yesterday I raised with the Taoiseach the decision of Professor Mary Daly, one of the members of the commission, to appear at an academic event in Oxford, having previously refused to come before the Oireachtas children's committee. She appeared at the event yesterday. Devastating revelations and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. He went much further than the Taoiseach yesterday and I respect that. There are two aspects to this. Calling on the commission members to appear in front of the Oireachtas children's committee should absolutely happen but we know we are limited in whether they will or will not do that. They should do that. However, there is a more fundamental...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: Why not tell people that?

Health and Criminal Justice (Covid-19) (Amendment) Bill 2021: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: The Labour Party is also putting its name to amendment No. 2, along with the Independent Group. The powers that the Minister is asking us to extend are draconian in any form and nature and I assume the Minister accepts that. In any normal time, it would not even be countenanced in a normal democracy. However, we were not in normal times and it was necessary during the pandemic. We...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It is over a week since the Ryanair plane was forced to land in Belarus, which led to the detention of Roman Protasevich and Sofia Sapega. The US now joins with the European Union in imposing sanctions on Belarus over its campaign to crush critics of the President of Belarus and its diversion of the Ryanair aircraft so that anti-Government activists could be arrested. I want to get an...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: What about equalisation and the leaving certificate?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: And the leaving certificate.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Functions (2 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: 16. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the EU and international division of his Department. [29456/21]