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Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: I wish to raise a sensitive issue. John O'Meara is my neighbour from Toomevara in County Tipperary. He is a self-employed agricultural plant contractor. He has three young children, Aoife, Jack and Tommy, aged from nine to 13 years. His partner, Michelle Batey, was 42 years old. She was from Nenagh and was a bank clerk with AIB. She was a couple of years behind me in school in Nenagh....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste for his reply. It is a very sad case. I have been working with John to try to help him through the various issues he must deal with and some of the bureaucracy involved. In his situation, he does not qualify for widower's pension. He does not qualify for one-parent family payment because it is means tested on the preceding year. He does not qualify for...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (13 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: 405. To ask the Minister for Health when communities can hold drive-through bingo activities given that the country is opening up again; and when he expects this to happen. [25221/21]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Legislative Measures (13 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: 438. To ask the Minister for Health when he will publish the human tissue Bill. [25303/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: I do not have enough time to engage on this topic. I remind the Taoiseach that the reason the then Minister, former Deputy Michael Noonan, brought in real estate investment trusts, REITs, in 2011 or 2011 was because the Taoiseach and his colleagues damn well destroyed this country with their housing policies. They were in bed with developers. The Taoiseach should not come in here and start...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: The truth can hurt for the Taoiseach.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: What I said was also factual.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: History does not show it.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: Agreed.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: Those were different times.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: I did not welcome them. I was a Minister of State at the time.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: I was speaking in the context of the circumstances we were in.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: Because of your Government and Cabinet.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: Because of your decisions at Cabinet for a decade.

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: Revisionism.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: 10. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the parliamentary liaison unit. [24642/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [23208/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: Thousands of young people and their parents woke up to a notification on their phones yesterday morning that stated the ESRI had found that those aged under 30 are likely to be the first generation worse off than their parents due to stagnant wages and a collapse in home ownership rates. That was the message that people's phones alerted them to, but those young people did not need that...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the cost to date of commissions of investigation under the direction of his Department. [23209/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Commissions of Investigation (12 May 2021)

Alan Kelly: This needs much more analysis. The IBRC commission will be six years old in June. It is investigating 38 transactions in which there was a loss of €10 million or more in the former Anglo Irish Bank but has been been working on Siteserv alone for its whole existence. It was reported on thecurrency.newsthat the commission had completed approximately three quarters of its draft report,...