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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: No. I will not be proceeding. This is disrespectful to the House.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: That is fine. I am entitled to make my point. I mean no disrespect-----
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I mean no disrespect to the Acting Chairman. There is no point in my coming in here to raise a topical issue if there are Ministers available and if not one has the courtesy to answer a serious question pertaining to his or her Department. It is just not acceptable. The custom and practice here is that if a Minister from the Department is not available, the Department contacts the person...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: What is the point in asking my question? I mean no disrespect to the Minister of State who is present, Deputy Canney. What is the point?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: The procedure is to make a Minister of State from the relevant Department available. In this scenario, none of the three Ministers of State seems to be available. In this case, the procedure is that the questioner should be asked whether it is acceptable for another Minister or Minister of State to take the question. I was not asked. I expected to have a Minister from the Department of...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand that. I have no issue with the Acting Chairman. What I am saying is accurate. This is insulting and wrong. That the Department of Justice and Equality could not bother its backside to make one Minister or Minister of State available, or extend to me the courtesy of telling me they were not available, reflects on how seriously it takes the issue of policing in County...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: It is more than a point. It is the custom and practice.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Acting Chairman.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Did it happen in this instance?
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Bord na Móna (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I have a range of questions for the Minister. I will have a quick-fire round now with some priority questions as they will take a bit of time, and I will ask more in the second or third time I come in, or both. My initial questions, just to prepare the Minister's officials, relate to the children's hospital and to what is going on in the mid-west, which the Minister has touched on. My...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: The Minister has no concerns about rising costs yet or about the projected timeline.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: And Mr. Breslin.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: What scale of submissions have they got?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Can Mr. Reid come back to the committee and advise us of those?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I understand they are at a fairly significant scale.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: I accept negotiations have to happen. In terms of the scale of this, the months that will take will affect the timelines, and the scale of the claims go way beyond what the team expected. There are significant issues on the site. From a cost point of view and a timeline point of view, they will impact significantly-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: -----because the negotiations-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Obviously, it will take a number of months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion (2 Oct 2019)
Alan Kelly: Has there been any change in the design of the hospital?