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Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: I accept it will take time but will the HEA provide the Committee of Public Accounts with a breakdown of all examples of where this is happening and how much taxpayers' funding is going into it?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: The Committee of Public Accounts would like that information and we would then have other questions. I have a concern about public knowledge, transparency and how BIMM works. Obviously the majority are not aware of this scheme and we need to ensure that the way the funding is being passed through the HEA to the relevant colleges for these courses is transparent and that it is obvious what...

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: When the witnesses are back before the Committee of Public Accounts next year, will it be a different story?

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: Chairman, I would appreciate if I could have answers from the HEA on the macro issues that I have raised and the record will allow the witnesses to see the questions I asked. I would like the DIT to address the issue of BIMM and provide the answers within a week to the committee. I ask the clerk to the committee to come back to me with the answers.

Public Accounts Committee: Dublin Institute of Technology: Financial Statement 2013-2014
Grangegorman Development Agency: Financial Statement 2015 (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is fair enough.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda College (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: 83. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality the details of communications, orally or written, her Department has had with An Garda Síochána on audit reports into Templemore Garda College. [17232/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda College (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: 84. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when her attention was first drawn to the audit report published on 29 March 2017 into Templemore Garda College. [17233/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda College (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: 85. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when the attention of her Department was first drawn to the audit report published 29 March 2017 into Templemore Garda College. [17234/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: 205. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the assets owned by the OPW in the Templemore district. [17229/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: 206. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the lands owned by the OPW in Clonmore; and the rent received each year by the OPW from these lands from 2007 to 2016, inclusive. [17230/17]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Office of Public Works Properties (6 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: 207. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the reason the OPW was not receiving rent for the lands it owned in Clonmore, County Tipperary; the reason the Garda College was renting out the land instead of the OPW; if the attention of the OPW was drawn to the fact that since 2007 rent was being paid to the Garda College for the land; and if so, the reason this was allowed to...

Brexit: Statements (Resumed) (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: I agree with many of the previous speaker's comments. I accept her passion on this issue. It would have been great if her party had campaigned on Brexit in Northern Ireland. It would have been welcome, given the passion with which she has spoken about the issue this evening. Her party did not even register as a political entity to campaign in the referendum. If it had done so, the Deputy...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: I will not go over previous question as I am sure the Minister and his officials, who I served with and know well, will be pleased to hear. To begin light-heartedly, the Minister once told me, during some banter in the Dáil, that I would never be elected in Dublin 4 and that he would never be elected in Tipperary. In the context of this legislation, the latter is certainly true. The...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: Who decided that it is an anomaly? Was it the Minister or the Department? Has it historically been described as an anomaly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am not being pedantic. What I am trying to get at here is that I do not believe that the thing which the Minister describes as an anomaly is an anomaly at all, and nor do most people. Is there evidence within the Department, through correspondence from officials - prior to the Minister announcing this - which says that it has to be addressed as an anomaly. I served as a Minister in this...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is fair enough. The Minister is entitled to that. I just wanted to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: It is basically the Minister's decision and it is his view that there is an anomaly.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: So, it originated with the Minister.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: That is fair enough. I thank the Minister for his honesty. It will save me from putting in a request for all correspondence regarding where it was stated that this is an anomaly. It does not exist, obviously, and it is an anomaly because the Minister decided that he needed to deal with it. That is his prerogative but it is an anomaly because he decided it to be so. That clarifies...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: General Scheme of Road Traffic (Fixed Penalty - Drink Driving) Bill 2017: Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport (5 Apr 2017)

Alan Kelly: So the Minister is happy to continue if it is defeated?