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Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (4 Jul 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Minister for making himself available to take this issue. Will he seriously consider, as part of the capital programme, which I presume will be announced when we come back after the summer recess, funding the N24 to motorway standard? This road connects Limerick and Waterford. This is a very valid proposal and given where we are with regard to the national spatial strategy and...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have a lot of time for the chief executive of IDA Ireland and many of the people who work for the organisation. They do a very good job but the transparency the Minister spoke about can come through in the way in which IDA Ireland converses with local authorities and, in particular, Members of the Oireachtas. We all have to use our own constituencies as examples. Benamore Park in Roscrea...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

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Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: 5. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the criteria which is being used by IDA Ireland to ensure site visits by potential inward investment companies to regional counties. [30516/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: This is the Tánaiste's first time taking parliamentary questions relating to her new Department. I wish her well in her new role. My question is on IDA Ireland. I have plenty of time for IDA Ireland. It has a very good chief executive and some fantastic people working for it, but I feel that it does not always have the resources that it needs. I have often argued in this House...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: IDA Site Visits (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am well aware that companies ultimately make their own decisions. I am also aware that the companies already here expand and make up a large proportion of the investment. Ultimately, companies that do come here have to be shown specific locations. There is no hidden agenda here. I have had direct experience in helping to get IDA Ireland into my own county. I was directly involved with...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Before we get to the business, why did we start at 10 o'clock today and not 9 o'clock?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I presume we will be going back to a 9 o'clock start.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: The members of the committee will figure it out at some stage.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: We can give it to the clerk to deal with.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: The Chairman said we will come to an interim conclusion?

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: There is a difference between an interim first-phase report and a first-phase report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I just want to be clear on the language. It is not an interim first-phase report, it is a first-phase report.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is better to be absolutely clear on these things.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I prefer the morning.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Deputy Cullinane and I both have other issues to discuss.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is not a related issue but I need the Chairman's advice. Since last week's meeting, the committee has not received any correspondence from Cork Institute of Technology, CIT.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Obviously, there are many issues involved. I know we are dealing with the colleges, which are a separate module, but CIT has one leg in and one leg out because of the fact that it was not-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (29 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Its representatives have been before us on two occasions. There are a lot of serious issues in respect of CIT and my particular issue relates to the Higher Education Authority and the manner in which the review was carried out. In essence, the terms of reference were written by institute in respect of an investigation into itself. Can the Chairman offer guidance on how we deal with this?...