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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 May 2022)

Alan Kelly: ..., Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 5 April 2022, (details supplied) if he will intervene to make specific, ring-fenced funding available in the 2023 IMMAC to begin the long-overdue process of automating the manual level crossings on this line; and if the line is to fulfil its obvious potential as a commuter line between Nenagh and Limerick which needs to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Alan Kelly: 984. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the definition of long-term unemployment before a person in receipt of a jobseeker’s allowance claim can be referred at random to the JobPath activation services; and if it is 12 months or less. [19503/22]

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Alan Kelly: I wish to ask about a constituency matter, the Dean Maxwell nursing home in Roscrea. This issue has been ongoing for a long time. It is proposed that the nursing home would be closed for long-stay residents. Everyone is totally against that. This is a bedrock and essential in Roscrea. Everything has changed since the Covid pandemic. There is a significant requirement to invest in public...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (3 Mar 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...ensuring that people have an absolute right to know information about their healthcare and that hospitals, screening providers and doctors do not keep information from them. This has been going on for way too long. I ask, on behalf of Vicky and everyone else, that we address this as soon as possible and finally get it over the line. It is a dear request for me. I want to see this...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Feb 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...changing, and with Covid having had such a disrupting effect, what is the Minister's personal position on the 170 km Shannon water pipeline? I listened to an interview the Minister did not so long ago. What he said in that interview was very interesting. This is going through public consultation at the moment and he acknowledged everything had changed fundamentally. He made some...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Feb 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...goes on and on. Many of us know of towns across Ireland that have no GP. We have an opportunity post Covid to put in place what we need and desire, that is, a single-tier public health service. The long-term health impacts of a lack of continuity of care and the difficulty of getting an appointment will cause even more waiting lists and issues. Evidence from the UK shows that earlier...

Legacy Issues in Northern Ireland and New Decade, New Approach: Statements (1 Feb 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...Act. It was expected to be moved in Westminster in January but it has yet to progress. At this stage, we would all welcome if this issue was addressed once and for all. It has gone on way too long. It took Labour MPs in our sister party in Westminster to finally deal with the issues of abortion and marriage equality, but there are still delays to the roll-out of healthcare for women...

Houses of the Oireachtas Commission: Motion: Cabinet Committees (1 Feb 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...be in the mid-west. Whether on the grounds of one of the current hospitals or with one of these hospitals, it should be in the mid-west because that is where the biggest crisis is. That is a long-term solution. In the short term, we need a change in pathways and also €41 million more in funding to bring UHL up to the required service of a model 4 hospital.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...will not be an issue. That is very good news given the journey we have all been on in this regard. Let me assure him that this is the biggest issue for the people of Roscrea. They want to see a long-stay, fully funded, fully functioning home in the town, similar to those in the other two major towns in the area, namely Thurles and Nenagh. That is what they want and deserve. There will...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Dec 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...issue. The more short-term issue is that for a number of nursing homes like the Dean Maxwell, their HIQA registration runs out on 1 January next year and they will not be in a position to take long-stay residents from that date. Will the Minister confirm in respect of the Dean Maxwell nursing home and other homes equally affected that this action will be postponed and will not be...

Order of Business (7 Dec 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...CHI, which had 34 social housing apartments. It also included eight three-bedroom homes that families in the Loughlinstown housing co-operative would receive. This important initiative has been going on for a long time. The land was disposed of by the council to CHI and the Loughlinstown group in 2018 but the developer pulled out last week. The planning permission will lapse next...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (7 Dec 2021)

Alan Kelly: 538. To ask the Minister for Health if new long-term stay residents will be accepted in a nursing home (details supplied) from 1 January 2022. [60054/21]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Dec 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...a series of papers on the crisis, including one on protecting enterprises, employment and incomes. One of the key Government policies was the employment wage subsidy scheme, EWSS. I have long called for this to be turned into a permanent short-term working scheme - a call which the Government has obviously ignored. More critically right now, cuts to the rates of payment under the EWSS...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (17 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...a genuine question relating to boosters for the over 60s, specifically, those aged 60 to 69. When they got the AstraZeneca vaccine, there was a delay whereby younger cohorts were fully vaccinated long in advance of the majority of those aged 60 to 69. I understand that the National Immunisation Advisory Committee, NIAC, provides the advice on this issue and I am not disputing that. I am...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Taoiseach's Meetings and Engagements (16 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...the scheme to be opened to survivors? We must also learn from the failings of the Magdalen laundries ex gratiascheme. My colleague Deputy Sherlock called for medical cards for survivors for the long term. That suggestion has been refused despite an amendment being passed in here. We must also address access to records. It is disheartening that, in contrast to the approach in Northern...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...and scientifically good but it is a Government decision whether to proceed with such a booster campaign. Will the Taoiseach have NIAC make a decision before Christmas? That committee took so long in relation to healthcare workers.

Death of Former Member: Expressions of Sympathy (10 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...sorry to learn of the death of Austin Currie late yesterday evening. He will be remembered, above all, as a politician of conviction and somebody who stood up and was counted and never, in a long career, allowed any form of intimidation to get in his way. He showed huge courage as he strived to bring peace to our island through his service to the people he represented, uniquely, both...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...it. I introduced the first version of this and I know about the limitations and the constitutional issues. I have been down that road and I support the Minister on this. However, much of the analysis has already been done by local authorities. Why is it taking so long? I introduced it in 2015. I believe it should go up to 7% eventually. Considering that Fine Gael has been in...

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: .... What is more, given what happened with Zapponegate involving freedom of information, text messages and the like, the Government is only creating a stick with which to beat itself. Somewhere along the line somebody has been messaging people to get this information out and if that becomes public, the Government will have big problems, and rightly so. Let that be the one message to take...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (29 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...for the people of the town. I urge the Taoiseach to ensure it happens because, according to both HIQA and a letter from the Minister for Health to the group at the home, this unit will close to long-term residents on 1 January 2022. That cannot happen. The town needs its nursing home, and a long-stay one at that. Will the Taoiseach please ensure it happens?