Results 7,041-7,060 of 20,758 for speaker:Alan Kelly

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Products Supply (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 319. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the anxiety and worry the parents of children with SMA are experiencing due to the delay in making the drug Spinraza available; the timeline for making it available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4989/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Capital Expenditure Programme (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 346. To ask the Minister for Health the capital projects, including information technology and equipment, the commencement date of which has been postponed, delayed or dropped as a result of the overruns in spending on the national children’s hospital by project, original commencement date and new commencement date in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5102/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 450. To ask the Minister for Health the date in October 2018 his Department drew the attention of the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, either formally or informally, to the overspends in the costs of the national children’s hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5640/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 451. To ask the Minister for Health the date and times of meetings he and-or his officials had with the national children’s hospital project and programme board since its inception; the persons that attended each meeting; if the minutes of each meeting will be published; if he will publish the correspondence between the board and his Department; if he will publish the minutes of the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 453. To ask the Minister for Health if he will publish the communications between the national paediatric hospital development board; the date and times of all meetings he and-or his officials had with the board; the purpose of these meetings; if he will publish the minutes of each meeting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5643/19]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Children's Hospital Expenditure (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 452. To ask the Minister for Health the date in November 2018 he or his officials informed the Taoiseach of the cost overruns in the national children’s hospital; the format in which this information was given; the person or body that provided same; if he will publish documentation relating to same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [5642/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Free Travel Scheme Review (5 Feb 2019)

Alan Kelly: 604. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to extend the travel pass scheme in particular to children who are wheelchair bound. [4984/19]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Sullivan is to be here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: He is the chair of the steering group.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: I have a particular question relating to that individual and I will put it in as a parliamentary question instead.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: Is this also in regard to Cork?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: On Deputy Connolly's point concerning the GAA, I will write to the committee in regard to the Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport and the funding of Páirc Uí Chaoimh.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: No problem.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: It should be noted that we should be on our third speaker by now as the time allotted to our first and second speakers has been used. I have spent weeks preparing for this meeting and I ask the Chair to note that. I believe the other members of the committee agree with me. I have asked to be provided with correspondence on several occasions and parliamentary questions have been tabled in...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: When will that be done?

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: Mr. Breslin cannot guarantee that the project will come in under €2 billion and that an exercise is being carried out to see how much scope creep or cost creep there will be again. In the light of from where we have come and given that the fit-out and other aspects of the project have increased the cost to €1.73 billion, as an occasional betting man I do not think the project...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: I appreciate that and the Department is right to do that exercise. For the public and members of the committee who are not members of the Joint Committee on Health - I am the only person present who is a member of both committees - it is new information that not only do we have a project which is at €1.433 billion, but also that when it is fitted out, it will be €1.7 billion...

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: Some €450,000.

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: What I just said was that we started off with a situation where we were looking at a cost of €983 million. In four months, it has gone to a case where we cannot guarantee the cost will be under €2 billion. The cost then went to €1.433 billion. Due to the additional cost of fitting it out that Mr. Breslin has outlined, the cost has increased to €1.7 billion....

Public Accounts Committee: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Financial Statements 2017 (31 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.