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- Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: 13. To ask the Minister for Health when life-saving drugs (details supplied) will be made available to people here. [40782/17]
- Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: 61. To ask the Minister for Health if the overspend in the HSE budget will affect the provision of the nine life-saving drugs (details supplied) the HSE stated it would fund in July 2017. [40783/17]
- Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: This question has been overtaken by the remarks made by the Minister at a committee meeting yesterday. I would like to mention two issues. The announcement made in July was a stunt, given that, for budgetary reasons, the changes cannot be made until November. When the announcement was made, it should have been made clear that it would take a number of months for the arrangements to be put...
- Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: In some cases the process is not that complicated, but in others it can be more complicated. I would appreciate it if the Minister identified the drugs in question. We are overpaying for drugs, as the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform accepts. It is quite obvious that we are overpaying for them and we cannot go through this again. The process used to make drugs available which...
- Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Yes.
- Other Questions: Medicinal Products Availability (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Will everything be done by November?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: The acting Garda Commissioner said July.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I thought the acting Garda Commissioner was talking about criteria.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I genuinely wish the acting Garda Commissioner the best in his role. He has a big weight on his shoulders. It is an opportunity for a new beginning and I hope he takes it. Today is probably the beginning of that process. He mentioned Assistant Commissioner O'Driscoll. The acting Garda Commissioner mentioned the six criteria or whatever they are called. When were they given to him?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I was a member of that Government. Are they the same criteria that we used to close stations? I presume they were.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: My understanding is that the selection of the stations for closure was based on three things, namely, an activity analysis of the Garda network, an examination of the impact assessments conducted by local Garda management in respect of stations regarding delivery, and a detailed review of the Garda station network in the Dublin metropolitan region. In an answer to a Topical Issue debate on...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: All I want to know is whether the criteria are the same.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: In fairness to the acting Garda Commissioner, I believe that when he came in here in July he gave us that commitment in good faith. I thought that the two letters that came from the Department and from the acting Garda Commissioner himself, although short, were very revealing. In his letter, the acting Garda Commissioner states that he is aware that the Secretary General of the Department...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: I have a very simple question. Has it been decided by An Garda Síochána to open six stations?
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Fair enough.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: It is now 28 September 2017. We all know that political statements have been issued and commitments made publicly about the opening of stations. The fact is, however, that the acting Garda Commissioner is saying this morning that no decision has been made by An Garda Síochána to actually do so. That is incredible. That is the first thing I want to say. The second thing concerns...
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: That contradicts what the witness just said.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: The witness said that no decision had been made on the opening of stations.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: A decision has been made on one.
- Public Accounts Committee: Report on Reopening of Garda Stations: Acting Garda Commissioner (28 Sep 2017)
Alan Kelly: Could the acting Garda Commissioner answer my question? All I want to know is whether the criteria are the same. The acting Garda Commissioner has read the criteria into the record. We did not know about these criteria, so that was helpful. There are criteria that I am now aware of. We know what was said in a Dáil question some years ago. The acting Garda Commissioner said that the...