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Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I acknowledge that. It is just about keeping the assets at the level required.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: The TII is basically at half of what it requires in funding. The budget was €80 million once.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I was Minister of State in that Department. The money that goes to local authorities for national roads maintenance comes from the Department. Does it not go through the TII's project reporting system, PRS?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is a pass-through cost. What role has TII regarding the funding?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: The TII just makes the payments. It does not analyse the funding or anything like that. It goes to local authorities for regional and local roads.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Why? I used to be a Minister of State in that Department and I know what it does. This is not a departmental question. These roads connect on the network with the roads managed by TII. Should TII not keep an eye as regards continuity on how that money is being spent and whether it is being used as effectively as it should?

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Transport Infrastructure Ireland: Financial Statements 2016 (12 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I know the TII does not have a remit but surely in the context of its decision-making on the projects that it puts forward, it is a little pointless if the connecting roads have not been brought up to a certain standard before they begin. This is a hypothetical scenario. Is this a factor in TII decision-making? Many local authorities do not have enough money and, therefore, this has been a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Charges (11 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that persons with haemochromatosis require several venesections per year and are paying €80 per venesection; his plans to provide free venesections to persons that have haemochromatosis; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43161/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank my colleague.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: There is also Stepaside, but we will return to that in the Committee of Public Accounts. The provision of funding for public transport is paltry; it is ridiculous. I say that as a former Minister of State in the Department who had specific responsibility for public transport when we did not have a bob. We have been talking about the tax breaks that have been given and the few bob being...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I was struggling to describe what to call this budget. It is effectively the cup of coffee budget. The Minister of State could wake up and pay a little attention.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry the Minister of State has been left on his own, although I see another Minister of State has come in to join him. This is the cup of coffee budget for people of my age and, indeed, the Minister of State's age, living around the country, when the mortgage interest relief reduction, the increased cost of commuting and child care costs, which still have not been addressed - the...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Budget Statement 2018 (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: -----but in all seriousness, that will be wiped away by the additional costs of living that we all know about. For people with children, because of the excessive costs associated with them, and those living in the Dublin conurbation who commute into the city, this is a negative budget. The tax, including income tax, changes make it a regressive budget; these are regressive moves. The...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education Grants (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 130. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if budget 2018 will reinstate the subsidies for the two mandatory Gaeltacht courses (details supplied) which student primary teachers attend. [42873/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Staff (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 117. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he will provide a copy of the advertisements and job specifications for each education and training board, ETB, chief executive's role that has been filled since 2013. [42736/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Education and Training Boards Data (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 118. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the official head offices of all education and training boards, ETbs, here; and the assigned ETB centre of each chief executive for the purposes of claiming expenses. [42737/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (10 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 377. To ask the Minister for Health when the list of medical conditions that are covered by the long-term illness scheme will be amended (details supplied). [42872/17]

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (5 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: We can agree to it. It seems similar to the portraits about which we know. I have been going back through the documentation on Cork Institute of Technology and have a couple of other questions to ask. I know that we are waiting for the redacted document to be given to us, but it may not. May I add a couple of questions, all to be sent in one item of correspondence?