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Working from Home (Covid-19) Bill 2020: First Stage (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I move: That leave be granted to introduce a Bill entitled an Act to provide employees working remotely with a right to switch off from out of working hours work-related electronic communications, to disapply subject to conditions certain provisions of the Safety, Health and Welfare at Work Act 2005 in the case of certain employees working temporarily from home, and to provide for related...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: A Cheann Comhairle, I apologise if my language is going to be slightly unparliamentary, but the Tánaiste is also the Minister with responsibility for business and it is time ComReg got its finger out as regards the customer service being provided by communications companies. Every Member of the House has had so many complaints that even you, a Cheann Comhairle, intervened during the...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I was one of the few who was not.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: My party has a proud history of creating social change in this country. We are probably unlike any other party in the degree of change we have stimulated. I refer to our attitudes to divorce, abortion, the rights of the LGBTQ community, women's issues and many other areas. As a party, we are now pursuing a campaign to ensure that every child born in this country has a pathway towards...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (12 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Tánaiste. This is a very important issue for us. Last December we lost the chairperson of our youth wing, Mr. Cormac Ó Braonáin. He was an amazing young man whose many talents had a huge impact on all of us in the Labour Party and further afield. His number one political objective was to ensure that children born to people not from this State or without...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I note that the Chief Medical Officer's comments on the use of face masks, as opposed to visors, endorse mine. I would appreciate it if a communication strategy could be circulated in that regard. I do not expect the Taoiseach to be able to tell us today what is going to happen in December but I would appreciate it if he could give us an indicative date as to when he will be able to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Covid-19 Pandemic (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: 7. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on Covid-19 last met. [35003/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: While I have been in the Chamber for the past 40 minutes or so, someone the Taoiseach knows well, John Wall, has been in touch to say he has rejected the Government's proposals in respect of the terminal illness card. The proposals in the long term as regards finance, communication and other matters are quite laudable and I welcome and endorse them. However, this does not do anything for...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I am asking the Taoiseach one last time before publication of the report of the clinical advisory group which, by the way, does not determine this.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: It is only giving clinical advice. Will the Taoiseach please just do what is right and extend the time limit from one year to 24 months.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: The Taoiseach has the power to do it under the Health Act 1970. Please just do so.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: In regard to the flu vaccine, I have in my hand the form that must be filled in at the GP's office. The requirement to do so means that people are spending longer in there. What is happening is that GPs are putting the forms through in bulk. The figures quoted in the press today reflect the fact that they do not complete the forms and put them through straight away because they do not have...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: Why is it not done electronically?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (11 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: We obviously had good news regarding a Covid-19 vaccine in the past week from Pfizer and BioNTech who say they have a vaccine that will be 90% effective. Given the issues relating to storage, this may or may not be the vaccine that will be rolled out in the coming months. I understand that others will be coming on stream pretty quickly too, which will be fantastic. We cannot allow this to...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Census of Population (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: 26. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the decision to delay the census until 2022. [35141/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I am quite conscious of what the Ceann Comhairle said earlier regarding the Chief Justice and Mr. Justice Woulfe but this is an issue for all of us, in government and in opposition. It is not an Opposition-versus-Government issue. I welcome the Taoiseach's decision to meet party and group leaders but, having read the letters, I am going to make a request of him in advance of the meeting....

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: I asked about a request through the Attorney General.

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Covid-19 Pandemic (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: 257. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if there will be additional buses or trains added to the existing timetables during the current round of level 5 restrictions to account for the reduction to 25% of capacity and the impact this is having on commuting workers that are unable to access public transport; the number of additional services provided; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: 258. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the costs of closure and replacement of the six level crossings on the Maynooth line proposed in the DART plus west proposals; the costs on a comparative basis of retaining automated level crossings following resignalling to facilitate electrified rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [34673/20]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ministerial Communications (10 Nov 2020)

Alan Kelly: 406. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on any engagement he has had with the United States of America. [35058/20]