Results 5,301-5,320 of 21,489 for speaker:Alan Kelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services (29 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 978. To ask the Minister for Health when ShannonDoc will reopen in Thurles, County Tipperary. [27282/20]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (24 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Students have been in touch with me, and, I would imagine, most Deputies in this House about accommodation. Planning for the year ahead, they face very difficult choices about whether they will need accommodation because lectures are moving online. In Dublin there are additional restrictions for universities and third level institutions. NUI Galway has confirmed that any student...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: I mean no disrespect to the Minister but that is not an answer. He obviously does not have a clue. He does not know the data. This plan has been there for a couple of weeks. It has not been launched, for whatever reason, but he obviously does not know the data. There are 830 new acute beds, 63 critical care beds and 484 new subacute beds. Of that 830, 409 are in place; of the 63, 45 are...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Why take the question in the first place?

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: The Government has had the data for weeks.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (24 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Last Wednesday, 80 people were on trolleys in University Hospital Limerick. I am familiar with the hospital as it is my local main acute hospital. That is worrying. I am used to such figures in the depths of January and February but not in September. Today, the Government launched the winter initiative from the HSE. I understand it was launched late but had been ready for some time....

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (24 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the reason Thurles, County Tipperary and surrounding areas has been left without ambulance cover for long periods due to personnel being requested to cover other areas of the country. [26133/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 8. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on his engagements with political leaders in Northern Ireland. [25028/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Northern Ireland (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: This is a critical time for a range of issues, not just Brexit but also Covid-19, so the necessity for co-operation is at an all-time high because of what we are all facing. We have consistently called for a new Ireland forum to examine these issues. To cut straight to the chase, the Taoiseach spoke about telling our colleagues in Northern Ireland about the shared island unit in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Will it be with us in two weeks?

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 3. To ask the Taoiseach when the Cabinet committee on environment and climate change will next meet. [23766/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: We finally got a legislative programme last week. I was quite disappointed with it on a number of levels. There are issues I raised with the Taoiseach, some of them very sensitive and important, which he did not see fit to include. The programme for Government commits to introducing a climate action Bill within 100 days of the formation of the Government. Will that happen? It is 88 days...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: If the Taoiseach listened, he would know.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: The same mantra that is being used to oppose one Bill is being used to bring in another Bill. The programme for Government commits to an average seven-year reduction in emissions and will define how five-year carbon budgets will be set. It provides that a net emissions target for 2050 will be set out in law. The longer those provisions are delayed, the harder it is going to be to implement...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: 1. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the establishment of a social dialogue unit in his Department. [23765/20]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: The point of this new unit is to help co-ordinate future social dialogue. As the Taoiseach said, the Labour Employer Economic Forum has helped with discussions between employers and trade unions during this crisis as well as beforehand. I am really concerned about the collapse of discussions in the Low Pay Commission. We all know what the Low Pay Commission is. We in the Labour Party...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: How will social dialogue work without an acceptance that low pay rates and poor conditions like the lack of sick pay, which we discussed earlier, cannot be addressed? How will all this work in the future? I am totally supportive of Patricia King, as are the Labour Party and our trade union colleagues. We need to look at how we might ensure workers' low pay will be reprioritised. There...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Only two Deputies asked questions.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Administrative Arrangements (23 Sep 2020)

Alan Kelly: Please bear that in mind when we are speaking.