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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]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (19 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 587. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of childcare service providers that closed their services in 2018 and to date in 2019, or have indicated that they are not reopening in September 2019; the number of childcare places which will be lost due to these facilities closing by county; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8137/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pension (Contributory) (19 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 616. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection when the difficulties being experienced on the website MyWelfare.ie will be resolved; and when a paper application form inviting pensioners to fill in gaps in their records will be issued. [7959/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Housing Provision (19 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 654. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government his plans for increasing housing supply in the South Dublin County Council area; the timeframe for same (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7891/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: There is much detail included in the correspondence. As a committee, we requested a number of pieces of information. The correspondence indicates that there are three elements that will be responded to at a later date, but as there may be more, we might liaise with the clerk on the outstanding requests. The first point made in the reply is related to surveillance and is mind-boggling...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General. I have been raising this for weeks and what he has said is crystal clear; it reinforces the answers he gave me last week. The way the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board was constituted under the Health Acts means that circular 12/2010 and the code of conduct for State bodies which was brought up into line in August 2016 would apply to...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Comptroller and Auditor General; that is crystal clear. The Comptroller and Auditor General is obviously not in the political sphere so we will not go anywhere near that with him. Repeatedly, including again last night, the Minister, Deputy Donohoe, and the Taoiseach have said that the representative, the civil servant - I have no opinion or issue with him personally - who sat...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: It is the overlap.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: I tabled a parliamentary question on this matter. The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform responded that the circular applies to its officials and, as Deputy Murphy just said, all other civil servants. Based on the factual statements - not opinion - we have had this morning on the National Paediatric Hospital Development Board, and all of the issues and consequences that will arise...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: Half of these documents will be published by the Joint Committee on Health as well.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: The report specifically states that this is to be kept very tight.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Data (14 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 164. To ask the Minister for Health the number of hospital appointments cancelled in January 2017, 2018 and 2019 by week and hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7486/19]

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: What about this issue?

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: On this issue.

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: What about the delay from October to November?

National Children's Hospital: Statements (13 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: The Minister never answered that question.