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Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I look forward to the Minister's announcement. It will have to be in the coming days to meet those timelines.

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 41. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the progress he has made on the national clean air strategy. [5696/17]

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 75. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources his plans to fully implement the nationwide ban on smoky coal; and if this will be in place for the 2018 heating season. [5695/17]

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 574. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the status of his Department's national clean air strategy. [5412/17]

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: 575. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the date on which the nationwide smoky coal ban will come into effect. [5414/17]

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the Minister back to the House. I want to know the progress on the national clean air strategy, which is an issue close to my heart. For the information of Deputies, more people die due to the quality of air in this country than die in road accidents. It is a huge issue, and one on which we have made major progress. I would like the Minister to give us good news in regard to the...

Other Questions: Air Quality (7 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have good time for the Minister but, to be honest, that is not an answer. In fact, the Minister did not answer the question at all. We have lost 15 months on this. The Minister knows it is an issue that is close to my heart and that I introduced the clean air strategy, but, 15 months on, nothing has happened. The smoky coal ban which was to be in place for the 2017-18 season has now...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: When was the decision taken to remove the staff? It is not anyone's fault here.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Should we not have been told then? The consequence would have been for us to measure-----

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: My question really relates to the following. We do work programme planning here every week. There are resources there that are specialised because of the work of Project Eagle. There are staff working on that. Some of those staff were removed and we were not informed. Our work programme planning has gone out of kilter because we are not aware of what staff were there to do the work in...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: University College Cork.

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: What year was this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: It does not have one.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: You could actually. We all have to deal with-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses. I apologise for being late. Unfortunately I am on two committees that sit at the same time on Thursday mornings, so I have to jump between the Committee of Public Accounts and the Joint Committee on Health. Like Deputies O'Reilly and Kelleher, I too am a member of the Committee on the Future of Healthcare, which is devising a plan for the next ten years. Politics...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: Is it about timing?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I thank for Dr. O'Shea for at least being the first person to try to answer some of my questions, because I was beginning to wonder what was the point in coming in here. However, that does not stand up to scrutiny. I know of an example - I will not give the details as it would identify the GPs in the area - in which the practices are similar, the GPs are of a similar age and the patients...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: If I get five of the ten answered I will be doing well. Those are the most important ones.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: I agree. I have no issue with that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Primary Care Services: Discussion (2 Feb 2017)

Alan Kelly: No. I accept that point and I saw that clarification. I know all the individuals involved there. I have no issue with that. There is no issue with the majority of GPs but we need to know if there are substantial differences and, if there are, why there are, and they have to be explained. If they are explained that is fine, but currently they are not explained.