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- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Teachers' Remuneration (26 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for coming in to deal with this issue himself. I am speaking on the role of primary school principals - teaching principals and those who are walking principals. I raise this after meeting the Irish Primary Principals Network and also from working closely with my colleague Councillor Alison Gilliland of the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO, which consistently...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: A number of my questions have already been asked. From a legislative point of view, we will be debating a lot of terminology and definitions. That will come out in the wash. Some work probably needs to be done in this regard. I have a general concern. The legislation will have to be drafted in such a way that makes it flexible enough to be adaptable from a ministerial point of view....
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: This goes way beyond the Scally report. We will not be implementing this on the back of the Scally report. It is specific. I have read the Scally report and know the recommendations inside out. Of course, it is a kick up the backside to say we have to go in a certain direction but that is what it is. This is a mammoth task. It has to be done pretty quickly. How are we to resource the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Dr. Holohan should flag with his Minister the fact that this has to be done and that it is a priority given what has transpired over recent months. It is a priority for us as a country. I am not confident that the resources will be in place to implement the legislation. This is not a reflection on anyone. I am not confident that from an organisational point of view, the work can be done...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Has that planning started?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: How? If I ring up the CEOs of the acute and non-acute sides in the mid-west or south east - I am in a dual jurisdiction - and ask a question for the Minister, I am sure I will discover they will have had multiple meetings on this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: How are we planning for resources throughout the country in that case?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Dr. Tony Holohan is saying there is a pathway already in place and that the same one is to be used.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Is there a ballpark figure for how much it will cost to implement?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: I presume it will be costed.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: I accept that but there will be extra costs, let us be honest.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Surely, as part of a budgetary process-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: In the next couple of weeks, as part of the budgetary process, we will be able to isolate the extra cost of the implementation of this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Including this.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: Surely, because I am aware-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: I am aware of the pathways. I am not trying to catch Dr. Holohan out. If anything, I am trying to flag things. I know the patient safety pathways that exist but, let us be honest about it, this takes it to another level given previous decisions to not go in this direction. Some of the work is being done. The health budget is under serious stress and we all know this. We have to get...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: In the context of individual health practitioners, Dr. Holohan said that the inclusion of a defence will be incorporated in the drafting of the Bill to distinguish between genuine unintentional acts of omission or commission that can lead to harm and the much rarer acts of wilful neglect or deliberate breaches of acceptable practice. I presume there will be variations. This will be quite...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee
General Scheme of the Patient Safety Bill 2018: Department of Health (26 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: I know that. I am not disputing that the Department does not have the powers. Surely, however, the Department of Health, although it is not a place of investigation, should be aware . Take CervicalCheck as an example. The Department was not aware of what was happening. It is not a case of having investigative powers, it is to state there may be cases where it should be aware. The Garda...
- Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)
Alan Kelly: I enjoyed that. The Labour Party will not be supporting the Minister tonight; rather, we will be supporting the motion for ideological reasons. We believe there is need for a change in ideology in how the housing crisis is being dealt with by the Minister. It is nothing personal. In fact, I found some of the personal commentary on the Minister extremely distasteful and unworthy of Members...
- Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 1 - President's Establishment (25 Sep 2018) Alan Kelly: I will pass over to Deputy MacSharry and I will come in after that. I have to leave to go out to the plinth.