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Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I hope TII's approach is consistent with what it said here several months ago.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Can we make suggestions for the 29 March slot?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I suggest between now and the next meeting we think about who we should bring in from the third level sector. I wrote to the committee about UCC. For a third level college to spend €500,000 on a partnership with Cork Opera House is one matter. The reply to that from UCC was that funding from UCC comes from non-taxpayer revenues. However, we need to have public revenues in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Basically it all goes into one big pot. The idea it can be separated out, the college can spend €500,000 and then come crying looking for money for everything else is a laugh. Whatever about the particulars for each college which we all went through, the message has not got through in this case.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: When are we dealing with what transpired in the Dáil last week and the references to the Committee of Public Accounts?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Is there plan to look at changing the residency component of this, tweaking it or anything like that?

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Yes.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I know that. It has been tweaked in recent years.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I know. I saw the changes, but it is still loose enough.

Public Accounts Committee: Comptroller and Auditor General 2016 Report
Chapter 20: Corporation Tax Receipts (Resumed) (22 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I know. It is quite limited what Chartered Accountants Ireland-----

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: You are only jealous.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: You did not even turn up at the council meetings to discuss it.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: You could not even be bothered to turn up at town council meetings to discuss it.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: You did not turn up at it. Check the record.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I will point it out to you.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: That is Tipperary politics for you.

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: I have gone back through all the relevant documentation and read what I brought forward in December 2015 and it is absolutely definite, in my view, what the Government's decision was then. As the former Minister with responsibility in this area, I have reread the documents that were put forward at the time and it is very clear that this plan needs a vote of the Dáil and Seanad. I have...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: Unfortunately, yes. I welcome the Minister of State and his official, who I know well. The national planning framework, NPF, and capital plan, as outlined to such ridiculous fanfare last week, is a fraud. They have no basis in law - I say "they" because there are two parts to it - and contain nothing more than planning aspirations and a wish list of capital projects. Frankly, what the...

Project Ireland 2040: Statements (Resumed) (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: -----to stop his own Bill progressing in the Seanad because he did not want an amendment passed, which would have created more embarrassment for him. I will refresh people's memories about the origins of this plan in the Planning and Development (Amendment) Bill and how it came to Government. The final report of the independent review of the performance of planning functions, having...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of National Maternity Strategy 2016-2026: Discussion (21 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: The witnesses are very welcome. I will not go over some of Deputy Kelleher's questions as they overlap with some of mine. I am a big supporter of the strategy. I have publicly stated that on numerous occasions and we have discussed it at length in the committee. An organisational chart of the strategy showed the various directorships and positions there was a delay in filling initially....