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

Alan Kelly: Yes.

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

Alan Kelly: Yes.

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

Alan Kelly: I am aware of this issue. Given the discussion we had earlier, I have no issue with holding it over. I believe that this needs to be actioned or put into a pathway where it will be dealt with one way or the other. If the Chairman wants to hold it over for a week, I will wait.

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

Alan Kelly: I believe it needs to be put in a pathway.

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

Alan Kelly: To clarify, while I know what we are doing next week, when we receive documentation like this, we have to send it. We have to look for answers. We have to have a process because otherwise it will stay in limbo. We cannot do that. This will have to go to relevant Departments one way or the other. I know we are holding it over to next week but let us not think that because we are holding...

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

Alan Kelly: I did not either but the secretariat kindly informed me.

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

Alan Kelly: The Chairman did and we did not hear it.

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

Alan Kelly: Deputy MacSharry might contribute first and then I will speak.

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

Alan Kelly: I know we are dealing with all of this stuff. This is not just a protected disclosure. There is a process here, which does not make sense, as to how the Irish Prison Service is dealing with this. It links in to what I spoke about earlier about the Toland review and the issue of how the Department of Justice and Equality updates its implementation of justice in the Prison Service. The...

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

Alan Kelly: He is written to or emailed - it is usually a registered letter - to tell him that he did not turn up for work and his salary has been deducted. I do not think this is happening to every other prison officer who gets leave from local line management, who are not the problem here. He obviously has issues and has raised them in a protected disclosure, the timelines of which, as Deputy...

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

Alan Kelly: I thank the Chairman.

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

Alan Kelly: I could not agree more.

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

Alan Kelly: While the Chairman wants to deal with these matters in general next week, this letter is a joke. I am glad we have it. It is making the situation worse for the Department and the HEA. I do not know who is pulling whose chain here. Did the HEA consult with them? On what basis was the letter written? It is full of contradictions based on the evidence we have seen here on multiple...

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

Alan Kelly: I propose that we hold the matter over for one week. I have tried to arrange a discussion with Mr. Love for the past week regarding information I need to tell him. Unfortunately, we have been unable to find time to talk. The committee should hold off on making a decision for a week in order to allow time for more clarity. I believe that the Department, the HEA and CIT have serious...

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

Alan Kelly: It is absolutely abhorrent that the Department of Education and Skills would stand over this matter and then state that in mirrored circumstances, it would be okay to do the same thing.

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

Alan Kelly: I appreciate the sentiment but it is a very strange comment.

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

Alan Kelly: Ultimately, women's issues are very important to the Labour Party, as are the social agenda and the progression of women's rights and their role in our society. However, the best person has to be picked. I am sorry but his or her gender is irrelevant to me. The Chairman and I get on fierce well but the idea that we would tell those responsible to give higher marks to women candidates is...

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

Alan Kelly: Can we do it next week?

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

Alan Kelly: Will we allocate an hour next week?

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

Alan Kelly: Agreed.