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- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----and then the Minister subsequently added it to a list without any clear criteria being laid down.
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Will the Minister agree that in itself could inflate the value of a site not necessarily in Balbriggan, but in other towns as well, and absolve potential owners from liability or personal guarantees?
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: When did the Minister become aware of the site?
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: When did the Minister become aware of the site?
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Government Deputies should listen.
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Those issues had to do with a senior Minister undermining an open and transparent process to confer-----
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----potential financial and commercial gain on individuals and entities. This is clearly a matter of concern. Does the Minister not agree that it should be of major concern to everyone in the House?
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Along with 198 others.
- Private Notice Questions: Primary Care Centres Provision (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: The Minister seems to be confused because we are not casting aspersions on his integrity in respect of whether there was a cosy deal done with Mr. Murphy. The point of the exercise is to get to the bottom of why names of towns, including Ballaghaderreen and Kilkenny and two locations in the Minister's constituency, appeared on a list although they were not on that list before that. We are...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: When he was in Ireland.
- Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Some 70,000 variable rate customers of AIB face another mortgage hike of 0.5% on top of a previous rate rise of 0.5%. There is a paragraph in the programme for Government directing any mortgage provider in receipt of State support to present Government with a plan of how it intends to cut its costs, over and above the existing plans and in fair manner, by a sufficient amount to forego a 25...
- Order of Business (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: This is in the programme for Government. Is there any impending legislation regarding this commitment in the programme because mortgage holders are in distress and more of them are falling into distress on a continuing basis? Is there legislation in place to bring about this commitment?
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: He might answer mine as well. I am still waiting for an answer.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: This morning, we should be discussing AIB's mortgage interest rate increase or the Exchequer returns. Instead, we find the sordid, grubby affair of primary care centre selection dominating the headlines again.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I have been trying to get clarity on this issue for some time. The Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, told the House that he consulted his Cabinet colleagues and officials and changed the criteria and selection process to ensure a broader selection of primary care centres, two of which were in his constituency. This morning came the revelation that there were close political ties between...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: Let us be clear. It is not just I who is saying this. Deputy Shortall, a former colleague in the party of the Minister, Deputy Quinn, resigned and stated she had to throw in the towel because of stroke politics.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: This clearly indicates there are difficulties in how primary care sites were selected-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: -----as well as concerns regarding close political ties between the owner and the Minister.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: That the Minister's decision conferred commercial and financial advantage on individuals is a serious issue.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Oct 2012)
Billy Kelleher: I have three questions for the Minister for Education and Skills. Was he consulted about the changed criteria in the primary care site selection process, was he aware of the political ties between the Minister, Deputy Reilly, and the landowner of the Balbriggan site, and is he comfortable with the decision process and the fall-out from same?