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Topical Issue Debate: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: The White Gypsy Brewery. I will give the Minister of State a few bottles.

Topical Issue Debate: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: Let us call a spade a spade. The dogs in the street know what is happening here. I appreciate the Minister of State's script but it is actually insulting to the industry. Everyone knows what is going on here. Market dominance is being abused. A whole range of publicans are being approached with these incentives. It is happening everywhere, whether it is rebates, refurbishment, kegs,...

Topical Issue Debate: Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: I ask the Minister to investigate what is blatantly obvious to anyone who knows the industry, namely anti-competitive practices by large brewing companies in Ireland. They are abusing their scale or market dominance to have basically exclusionary deals with publicans, large-scale publicans in the main. Large brewers are providing free stock, advance discounts, capex or cash investments to...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: State Examinations Data (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: 201. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of persons required overall in recent years, including 2018, to correct papers and to assess projects in the State examinations; and the proportion of these persons who were registered teachers. [29426/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Teachers' Remuneration (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: 202. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of teachers in the most recent years for which statistics are available who were in receipt of a principal teacher's allowance throughout one school year and on the payroll but not in receipt of such an allowance in the subsequent school year; and if his attention has been drawn to evidence of greater numbers of principal teachers...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Discipline (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: 253. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of prosecutions for possession of a mobile device by prisoners in the Midlands Prison in 2016, 2017 and to date in 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29261/18]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Building Programme (3 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: 257. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality when construction of the F wing will begin in the Midlands Prison; the number of prisoners it will accommodate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29302/18]

Implementing the National Drugs Strategy: Statements (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister of State's comments. We should not be debating the new drugs strategy a year after it was launched. It is kind of crazy. There is so much talk about the need to address this issue and we are debating the strategy a year late. We talk a lot about new politics but this is as an example of where it is not working. The new national drugs strategy is rightly called...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: There is another thing in relation to the HEA. I have just looked at the transcript of our meeting with the HEA and I have a concern about the way in which it is managing protected disclosures and how the various institutions under its remit are handling such disclosures. I flag to the committee that this is something we may wish to come back to. I am due to have a conversation with Dr....

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: I know that.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: People make mistakes. Just admit it.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: Thanks, Mr. Hurley.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have never seen that letter. Considering what I said in my previous statement here, I have never seen this.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is a good idea.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is my question.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: And we were forgotten about.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: I am concerned. This a box ticking exercise. As Deputy David Cullinane said, there is a difference between the protected disclosures legislation, the process by which Departments are dealing with them and the process by which we, as individuals, receive them. I will have no issue with sitting down with them once this is done, but I have two concerns. Learning how well it is working and...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: Two more.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have a concern about the manner in which this is happening following the report of the independent review group on the Department of Justice and Equality, the Toland report, and the length of time it is taking. We have thrashed out the issues involved in detail. I ask the committee to express a concern about the length of time it is taking to come to conclusions on the implementation of...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (28 Jun 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes, based on what is written in the letter. I ask the committee to express concern considering the evidence given here. I also want to flag, as part of the review of the Department of Justice and Reform and its handling of the matters in question, that we will have to focus in on the Irish Prison Service. Specifically, I would like to see what progress is being made by the Department of...