Results 101-120 of 551 for cork speaker:Alan Kelly

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Apr 2018)

Alan Kelly: .... We have raised this issue with the universities and colleges numerous times. Professor O'Shea, at the end of his letter, states that the funding to support the annual €60,000 investment in Cork Opera House is sourced from the university's "own sources of income", for example, non-Exchequer income. If there is one issue that the committee nailed in its report on how money was...

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

Alan Kelly: The bottom line is that I could not stand over this statement. I am not going to accept this. We have been down the road on this a number of times. I raised another issue in respect of the Cork Opera House, which they are now funding under own funded sources or whatever phrase they use. The issue here is that there is an extra pension liability as a result of legal challenges to...

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

Alan Kelly: The same university used the same statement recently in respect of its sponsorship campaign with Cork Opera House.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...recall him being very critical of the payments made under schemes such as this. It is unacceptable that there have been no reviews of projects. The Secretary General knows that representatives of Cork Institute of Technology have been before the committee on several occasions. They are among our favourite witnesses and will be back soon. Two of the projects relate to the Maritime...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: Is it the same in the case of the Cork School of Music which has a similar problem?

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: My issue which we flagged is there are lots of questions. This crosses over into our questioning of Cork Institute of Technology on educational issues. There are lots of questions about management, finances and a whole load of others things in the college and we will not stop digging until we get to the bottom of the matter.

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

Alan Kelly: ...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 first place to be able...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (8 Feb 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...regarding a number of universities and colleges. I have continuously raised issues on CIT to which I have not received full answers. UCC is signing a major contract to sponsor a concert hall in Cork and it is frightening to think it has not learned any lessons. The whole issue on third level colleges is to get the answers we were promised and finding out if further information was kept...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)

Alan Kelly: ..., Offaly and Tipperary, on which I drive eight to ten times a day along with hundreds of thousands of people. It does not just affect my constituency because thousands of people go to Limerick, Cork, Dublin and in every other direction. A number of people have been killed on this road in the past year and I knew some of them. May they rest in peace. The section between Roscrea and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Road Network: Transport Infrastructure Ireland (24 Jan 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...which attempts to link freight and goods to the ports, and to link Foynes, Limerick, Shannon Airport, Rosslare and Waterford. It links to the M8 and connects Dublin to Limerick, as well as Cork. Given the potential economic value of this and from the perspectives of climate change and the planning framework, this route needs deep consideration.

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?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (3 Oct 2017)

Alan Kelly: 319. To ask the Minister for Health when the post of director of nursing in child and adolescence in a mental health service in Cork city will be filled in view of the fact that it has been vacant for over a month and no process has commenced to fill it; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41374/17]

Topical Issue Debate: Road Projects (4 Jul 2017)

Alan Kelly: ..., Waterford and Kilkenny have written to the Minister and made a submission on this motorway proposal. We need the motorway in order to open up the south of the country. Not only would it link Cork, Limerick, Waterford and all the towns in between, it would link the ports of Rosslare, Waterford, Limerick, Foynes and Cork. Based on my knowledge as a former MEP, I think there is...

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.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update on Health Issues: Discussion (28 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...of what happened in Waterford. Like everyone else, I am very sorry for the family involved. My wife's family come from south Kerry. I ask the committee to imagine trying to get to Tralee or Cork from Ballinskelligs or Waterville or to hospitals in the region from west Clare or north Sligo, and all the issues relating to these places. The cardiac issues in the north west are very...

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I presume the majority of the members had to travel from Cork.

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...were other bidders. I asked him a very simple question so there is no point in one casting one's eyes to heaven. The alternative would have been to invest €21 million in the business school in Cork. I take an interest in UCC because I am a double graduate from there, I met my wife there and I made lots of friends there.

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: ...in the country, effectively, and that is why I am breaking it down. In terms of putting €21 million into the IMI, which is a basket case, or spending the money on building up the business school in Cork, why was the decision made not to put it into Cork?

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: Why did UCC not build up the business school in Cork?

Public Accounts Committee: University College Cork and University of Limerick: Financial Statements (22 Jun 2017)

Alan Kelly: I, as somebody who takes a keen interest in UCC, said so on the previous occasion on which the witnesses were here. I want to know, for the people of Cork, the people of the area, the people involved in the college and the staff - many of whom are brilliant individuals - why did UCC not decide to build up the school in Cork?