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Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: No. The offering in respect of public childcare provision is zero. Where the provision of childcare places is concerned, we are facing demographic changes. That is one of the biggest issues facing people in this country and the Government has failed significantly to deal with it. I welcome the increased number of gardaí coming through Templemore but while the announcement is welcome,...

Financial Resolutions - Budget Statement 2020 (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for being here this afternoon. This is no reflection on the Minister of State who is present in any way but it was the tradition in this House that during the main budget speeches on budget day, the Taoiseach or the Minister for Finance or, in the past few years, the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform would be in the Chamber to listen to the speeches...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 111. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if secondary schools have access to NEPS over weekends; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40973/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 176. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a copy of all correspondence between her office and the IDA from 2016 to 1 October 2019 will be provided. [40969/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 177. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a copy of all correspondence between the office of the Secretary General of her Department and the IDA from 2016 to 1 October 2019 will be provided. [40970/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 178. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a copy of all correspondence between her office and Enterprise Ireland from 2016 to 1 October 2019 will be provided [40971/19]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Departmental Correspondence (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 179. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if a copy of all correspondence between the office of the Secretary General of her Department and Enterprise Ireland from 2016 to 1 October 2019 will be provided. [40972/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 267. To ask the Minister for Health if an independent investigation into gynaecology services in Letterkenny General Hospital will be launched; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40835/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 268. To ask the Minister for Health if a copy of all NPHDB and CHPP minutes for 2018 and 2019 in relation to the new national children’s hospital will be provided. [40837/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Ministerial Travel (8 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 530. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the details of her visit to the Irish Arts Centre in New York on 11 January 2019; and if there will be a follow-up on the visit. [40974/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Will the Comptroller and Auditor General get it checked and come back to us?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is worth chasing up.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: The person should go and see what the roads are like in rural areas.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: In fairness, that is a different point.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: He is probably right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Is the individual saying that roads are being resurfaced when there is no need for it to be done?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: This letter is highly inappropriate. I would not go so far as to say that there is an attempt to exert influence over the committee or nobble somebody, but it is not appropriate. I agree with the way in which the Chairman proposes to deal with it. If there are other instances of people trying to do this to the committee or to a member of the committee, we should deal with them in the same way.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Absolutely. However, for something like this to be published would be a very different matter.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: If it were published, we could have a mistruth being putting out on the basis of somebody's opinion or interpretation. It is our job as a committee to make the decisions on what transpires here. In this scenario, reference was made to what the individual in question said when he attended a meeting of the committee. That person might have a different interpretation of what was said, but he...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I support the Chairman in what he said about the National Council for Special Education and its processes.