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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: Let us say there are no guardians. Let us paint that picture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: The initiative of another family member should be able to deal with it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: That is what I thought.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Home Affairs and Migration: General Scheme of the Guardianship of Infants (Amendment) Bill 2025: Discussion (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: I have one comment to make. We will come back to this with the Department officials but my observation is that the proposed Bill is complex but short. When we engage with the witnesses on the Bill separately after we get back, we might go through the issues relating to Tusla. We will want more definitive answers, rather than us going back to them all the time. It is not a very long Bill....

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 164. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government for details of the dates and attendees of all meetings if the Biomethane Implementation Group, which is implementing the national biomethane strategy, chaired by his Department. [35315/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 165. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government when planning guidelines will be put in place as part of the national biomethane strategy for biogas plants. [35316/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Environmental Policy (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 166. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government whether the targets under the national biomethane strategy, which aims to have approximately 200 anaerobic digestion plants and 5.7Twh of renewable gas in place by 2030, are realistic. [35317/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 167. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government if he has met with a group (details supplied); and if not, if he will do so in the coming months. [35320/25]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 168. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government to list the dates and attendees of all meetings he and or his Department officials have had with the Environmental Protection Agency since he took office. [35322/25]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: An Garda Síochána (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 294. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform when an assessment was last made by the OPW of the levels of asbestos in Garda stations across the country; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35720/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 444. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he has met with a group (details supplied); and, if not, if he will do so in the coming months. [35319/25]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 445. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government to list the dates and attendees of all meetings he and-or his Department officials have had with the Environmental Protection Agency since he took office. [35324/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 570. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of retirements, per county, and by rank, in An Garda Síochána between 2020 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [35697/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 571. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he will share the details of the correspondence his Department received from the OPW regarding asbestos in Garda stations in 2017. [35698/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 609. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has met with a group (details supplied); and if not, if he will do so in the coming months. [35318/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Departmental Meetings (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 610. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to list the dates and attendees of all meetings he and or his Department officials have had with the Environmental Protection Agency since he took office. [35323/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (1 Jul 2025)

Alan Kelly: 815. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to get sufficient number of healthcare assistants working in areas throughout the country (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [35959/25]

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: We need to be very careful with this Bill. The Minister needs to get this right because there are legitimate concerns about it. The purpose of the Bill is to give effect to the EU directive 2017/541 on combating terrorism, which is to a large extent directed at the foreign terrorist fighter phenomenon. The Bill includes offences of travelling to commit a terrorist offence, facilitating...

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Yes, it is.

Criminal Justice (Terrorist Offences) (Amendment) Bill 2025: Second Stage (26 Jun 2025)

Alan Kelly: Please be assured that I have been here a long time and I have seen what is brought up in relation to Bills. I was made aware of this Garda operation some time ago. It was months ago, long before this young man took his own life. Members will be aware that journalist John Lee wrote about it in the Mail on Sunday. So much has happened in this case that does not add up. This creates a...