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Ceisteanna - Questions: Shared Island Unit (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: 4. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the allocations planned from the shared island fund. [31299/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: By ignoring the matter.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: They are the same issues that were there in September.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: I want to raise a sensitive issue with the Taoiseach. Some people believe that during a pandemic or a crisis, there are times when they push on with other things because they will not get enough notice. On 2 September, the Minister for Health, Deputy Donnelly, met online with the 221+ group regarding the CervicalCheck tribunal. The group expressed all of its concerns and said it was a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: I am not into quangos. It is just a situation where the whole thing is being inspected, run and-----

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: I asked a few questions that the Taoiseach did not answer. I respect his point that he got this information by text, which is extraordinary. I do not believe the public would know about this were it not forThe Irish Times. Were it not for Simon Carswell and Jack Horgan-Jones, we would not be talking about this issue this morning. That needs to be looked into. Will the Taoiseach inform...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: For the public, it is not conceivable or understandable that contact tracing was not resourced until now. We need bandwidth and elasticity to ensure the public is protected. That did not happen and it is bloody well not acceptable.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: It is failing.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: I know that.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: It is happening now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: It is not transparent.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: Perhaps the Taoiseach will answer the other question I asked.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: That was done through an agency, CPL, not directly by the HSE.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: When did the Minster know?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: This is about tracing and not about testing. I always have a degree of sympathy and sorrow for the Taoiseach and particularly for the Minister, Deputy Donnelly, because it is obvious that they were not aware of this until very recently. They have been out in the public and they have been talking in here expressing confidence in testing and tracing. On a point of order, I ask the Ceann...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: I would say you have a fair idea now.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (21 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: At what time yesterday, or whenever, was the Taoiseach made aware of the issue? When was the Minister made aware of it? I compliment The Irish Timesbecause I do not think we would have known about this if it were not for the work of Simon Carswell, Jack Horgan Jones and their colleagues. The Taoiseach mentioned that it is taking 2.2 days from end to end. The real figure we need to know is...

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee that deals with housing last met. [31298/20]

Ceisteanna – Questions: Cabinet Committees (20 Oct 2020)

Alan Kelly: When the residential tenancies legislation went through the Seanad last July, we proposed a very clear enabling amendment that the Government and the Minister opposed. It would have possibly avoided the need for us to sit this week because it gave power to the Minister to reintroduce a ban on evictions. It was an either-or. It did not force him; it just gave him the power to do so if there...