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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I welcome everyone to their first meeting of the Joint Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport. I am quite conscious that several members are at their first-ever committee meeting. They are especially welcome. Some of us have been around a little longer. We have received no apologies. One or two members are caught at other committee meetings, which often happens at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank members for their remarks. As I said earlier, several members will probably come in late. There are several committees meeting at the same time. I thank everyone for their good wishes. I am delighted to be chairing this committee. Google obviously delivered results for Deputy Byrne's history search. My drama and acting skills have probably evolved since I was in the junior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Senator. We now need to deal with a range of housekeeping issues I flagged earlier, so with members' agreement we will go into private session.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State and I appreciate his sincerity. He does come from a beautiful part of County Galway. I do not want to be talking about this matter for several more years. I know that there is system we can put in place that will work. The requirements are specific. We need people to come together who can operate a vehicle that can be subsidised, such as through the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for coming in from the appropriate Department to deal with this issue. It is appreciated. Does the Minister of State want to be a hero in rural Ireland?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: Maybe he already is.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: To be honest, as his officials have probably already told him, I have been chasing this issue since 2012. The taxi regulations review brought about a new rural hackney licence. I was the Minister of State in that Department and I sponsored this. The application process started in 2013-2014 but very few took it up because it was too rigid in terms of the rules and regulations around it....

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: We are very bad in this country, across all political parties, at infrastructure planning. We are horrendous at it. It is shameful because we are letting down the people. When it comes to infrastructure, there is no long-term planning. The national planning framework is a dog's dinner. The national development plan is loaded with aspirations and projects that often do not materialise and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: All of us in the House offer our condolences on the death of Garda Kevin Flatley. I agree with the Garda Commissioner, who said we need a reset for how we, as a society, think about roads policing. However, the same Commissioner sat before the Joint Committee on Justice on 15 May 2024 and committed to the addition of 150 new gardaí to roads policing. There were to be 75 in 2024 and 75...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am just asking the Commissioner to honour the figures he mentioned.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 248. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a copy of all delegation orders issued to Junior Ministers across the Government as of 1 May 2025. [23010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Telecommunications Infrastructure (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with persons regarding their concerns over a telecommunications mast (details supplied). [23283/25]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: The relevance to this is that a lot of these drinks-----

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: -----are served outside, and do you know what? It is as relevant as Carrickmacross was.

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: The issue is that we need to give some guidance because workers are left in a situation where they do not know. There could be scenarios where minors end up drinking alcohol, either accidentally or deliberately because of this. The vintners, in fairness, have come out and said they should not be served. They said under-18s should not be served and that adults who order it for them should...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: We will of course support this. It is kind of ridiculous that we are back here every six months, so hopefully it will be the last time. The Minister has committed to it.

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I know. He committed to it, but he kind of did not commit to it. He might commit to whether he is committing to it. Seriously, it has to be done because this is kind of ridiculous. To the public, outdoor seating and socialising is the norm now. We maybe need to slightly improve it because people have adapted. It is one of the few things resulting from Covid, where there was a positive,...

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: It was great. There were some changes in my local town of Nenagh, which were positive, and I implored the council to do other works that were complementary, which was great. I hope we will not end up here again and that the miscellaneous provisions Bill being brought forward will deal with this and regularise the whole situation, so we do not have to be coming in here talking about the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Meetings (7 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 236. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for the dates and attendance list of all meetings his Department officials, advisers or any combination of representatives has had with RTE in 2025, distinguishing physical and virtual meetings, by date and attendees, in tabular form. [22852/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Policy (7 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 255. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when social housing qualification thresholds will be reviewed, considering the current threshold in Tipperary is, €30,000 for a single person; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [22280/25]