Results 721-740 of 21,489 for speaker:Alan Kelly

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 662. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of new Garda mountain bikes allocated to Dublin metropolitan region in 2024 and to date in 2025; and the number of these mountain bikes withdrawn from the fleet during same period, in tabular form. [25368/25]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (20 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 663. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of gardaí, by rank, attached to Dublin crime response team. [25369/25]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Official Engagements (20 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 718. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he has spoken formally with his UK counterpart to date in 2025. [25351/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (20 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 812. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE paediatric occupational therapists based in primary care in CHO3 in 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form. [25349/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (20 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 813. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE physiotherapist attached to CHO 3 older persons services, in 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025 in tabular form. [25350/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Ambulance Service (20 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 886. To ask the Minister for Health the plans in place to help the recruitment crisis in the National Ambulance Service nationwide; the plans in place to recruit staff in north Tipperary, seeing that only one ambulance was operating in the whole of north Tipperary last night; the plans in place to retain staff currently operating in the service; and if she will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I welcome everyone to their first meeting of the Joint Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport. I am quite conscious that several members are at their first-ever committee meeting. They are especially welcome. Some of us have been around a little longer. We have received no apologies. One or two members are caught at other committee meetings, which often happens at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank members for their remarks. As I said earlier, several members will probably come in late. There are several committees meeting at the same time. I thank everyone for their good wishes. I am delighted to be chairing this committee. Google obviously delivered results for Deputy Byrne's history search. My drama and acting skills have probably evolved since I was in the junior...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Arts, Media, Communications, Culture and Sport: Business of Joint Committee (14 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Senator. We now need to deal with a range of housekeeping issues I flagged earlier, so with members' agreement we will go into private session.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State and I appreciate his sincerity. He does come from a beautiful part of County Galway. I do not want to be talking about this matter for several more years. I know that there is system we can put in place that will work. The requirements are specific. We need people to come together who can operate a vehicle that can be subsidised, such as through the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister of State for coming in from the appropriate Department to deal with this issue. It is appreciated. Does the Minister of State want to be a hero in rural Ireland?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: Maybe he already is.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Taxi Licences (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: To be honest, as his officials have probably already told him, I have been chasing this issue since 2012. The taxi regulations review brought about a new rural hackney licence. I was the Minister of State in that Department and I sponsored this. The application process started in 2013-2014 but very few took it up because it was too rigid in terms of the rules and regulations around it....

Housing and Critical Infrastructure: Motion [Private Members] (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: We are very bad in this country, across all political parties, at infrastructure planning. We are horrendous at it. It is shameful because we are letting down the people. When it comes to infrastructure, there is no long-term planning. The national planning framework is a dog's dinner. The national development plan is loaded with aspirations and projects that often do not materialise and...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: All of us in the House offer our condolences on the death of Garda Kevin Flatley. I agree with the Garda Commissioner, who said we need a reset for how we, as a society, think about roads policing. However, the same Commissioner sat before the Joint Committee on Justice on 15 May 2024 and committed to the addition of 150 new gardaí to roads policing. There were to be 75 in 2024 and 75...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: I am just asking the Commissioner to honour the figures he mentioned.

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Ministerial Responsibilities (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 248. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a copy of all delegation orders issued to Junior Ministers across the Government as of 1 May 2025. [23010/25]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Telecommunications Infrastructure (13 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: 560. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if she will meet with persons regarding their concerns over a telecommunications mast (details supplied). [23283/25]

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: The relevance to this is that a lot of these drinks-----

Civil Law (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2021: Motion (8 May 2025)

Alan Kelly: -----are served outside, and do you know what? It is as relevant as Carrickmacross was.