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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: We have an issue here because if we call a spade a spade, 7 March is an important topic for us and an important topic for this country. There are two members from the same political alignment on that, and I am not referencing those individuals, but there are also members who rarely ever turn up here-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am not finished. In fairness, we regularly get phone calls on this. I often get called and asked if I will step in and be first speaker or second speaker because a member is not going to turn up. That is not really fair because one has to prepare 24 hours beforehand. I have done it many times where I was not meant to be the first or second speaker and I am sure-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: The point is that when it comes to the way in which this is being scheduled, it does not seem to be fair or to work right.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Deputy Mac Sharry's question can be dealt with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I will name them but I do not know what topic it is.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I have two additional points and one new point. Following on from what Deputy Cullinane said, and to be clear, we need one session with Mr. Watt and, in the same session or another one, the head of procurement. We need the two individuals who are over health spending in the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform. We need the board to come back in and the chairs of the sub-committees,...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I know we have a tight schedule but I want to say to Deputy MacSharry that the issues relating to the Irish Prison Service are pretty seismic. We need a session to deal with those and as soon as possible. I was going to raise the following issue last week or the week before. This committee, through the secretariat, has done a whole range of periodic reports. This is more than a week's...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I am aware of some of that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: That is what I want.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: We need to see which Departments are responding and which are not.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Chairman.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: We need to make sure it is being done.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: What day is it?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Do not do that.

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Parks (21 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 23. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the contact she and her officials have had with executors of an estate (details supplied) with regard to the house, its surrounds and the approximate 5,000 acres of land in the estate and securing continuing public access to the lands. [8694/19]

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the interlude. It was most welcome because to our visitors and those watching at home, the motion must be the most bizarre motion of no confidence in the House's history. Fianna Fáil does not seem to have confidence in Sinn Féin, Sinn Féin does not seem to have confidence in anyone, while the Minister sits there in a bizarre situation...

Confidence in the Minister for Health: Motion (Resumed) (20 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: -----is intolerable. I ask Fine Gael Deputies not to behave as Sinn Féin Deputies do. The situation in the health sector is the greatest example of the intolerable state of affairs. It is intolerable for everyone - for the Government, the Opposition and the public. Votes have little or no meaning any more. The Government loses multiple votes every week and struggles to bring through...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (19 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 218. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a project to rebuild a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7890/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Centres Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 366. To ask the Minister for Health when building will commence for the proposed new primary care centre at Ballyboden, Dublin 16 in view of the fact that the site was purchased a number of years ago and has received planning permission; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7888/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Funding (19 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 367. To ask the Minister for Health if HSE projects in an area (details supplied) will be affected by the cost overrun in the building of the national children's hospital, such as a new renal unit at Tallaght University Hospital, new primary care centres and care of the elderly facilities in the area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7889/19]