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Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Does it happen every single time?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I would like to see it done in the way outlined in the report.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is for transparency and ease of use. I am not going to take up much committee time on this but there are a number of other useful recommendations. Recommendation No. 3 relates to managerial oversight. Recommendation Nos. 6 and 8 deal with board members being appointed by the public appointments service, PAS. That goes outside the board's remit and is more of a departmental issue but...

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I understand that, and will ask the Department to deal with those recommendations.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: Can Mr. Walsh come back to the committee on the recommendations that relate to the board?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I did.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I understand. We will find out about it exactly when the board sends a report on the 101 recommendations to the committee.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: There are 101 recommendations in the report in question. I ask Mr. Walsh to remove the ones that are Department-led and give us a status update on the rest.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: What is Mr. Walsh's view? I am asking if he has an issue with any of the proposed legislation.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: It has now been nearly three and a half years since the report was published, and I am deeply concerned that the recommendations have not been implemented.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is good, because the Department refused to answer my parliamentary question on it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: We spoke about that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I refer to the amount of cases relating to the environmental impact assessment and habitats directives which were lost in the European Court of Justice. How many were lost in 2018?

Public Accounts Committee: 2018 Financial Statements of An Bord Pleanála (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: There were also ten cases where the board just pulled out.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Citizenship Applications (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 103. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the cost of becoming an Irish citizen for asylum seekers claiming refugee status; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40236/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: 158. To ask the Minister for Health if all correspondence between his Department and the national paediatric hospital development board since 1 February 2019 will be provided. [40231/19]

UN Climate Action Summit: Statements (2 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank my colleague, Deputy Sherlock, for sharing time. As someone who previously held the Minister's portfolio as well as a number of others - it was three ministries in one according to this Government - and who brought in the legislation on climate change and participated in the adoption of the COP21 agreement in December 2015 and signed it in the UN a few months later, I wish to raise a...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: The practice in this House is that a relevant Minister answers the questions. I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, but he is not a Minister in the Department of Justice and Equality. If he were a Minister of State in that Department, it would be fine. As a former Minister, I know that all Ministers' first duty is to this House. I believe there are four Ministers...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not saying that.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)

Alan Kelly: I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State, Deputy Canney, who is a fine Minister of State in his own area, but to be fair he will only be reading a script. This is about a very serious issue, namely, the loss of the regional headquarters of An Garda Síochána in Tipperary. They are being moved to Ennis. To be fair to the Minister of State, although he knows my county well, he...