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Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It was a combination of all the evidence across the board.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I have one last comment. I will be brief. Point 10 in Mr. McCarthy's summary is a point to which I have consistently referred. During all the questioning, it has come across to me that there is an unwritten or undefined aspect to this, that is, that there were four components, to which Mr. McCarthy has made reference, to the making of this decision which, through this process, I believe we...

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: Special Report No. 94 of the Comptroller and Auditor General: National Asset Management Agency Sale of Project Eagle (Resumed) (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I think we will.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the witnesses and I am glad to be here today. As the Minister knows, the Committee on Public Accounts sits at the same time as this committee and I rarely get to come here. I missed having the privilege of asking him questions approximately a month ago so I am glad to be here. Who is running health care in this country at this moment in time? We must learn something from this....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Good. My colleagues have asked questions about nursing. We are facing into strikes in several months time. That is guaranteed unless the Minister can do something about it. I listened to the answers he gave earlier. I admire his energy and respect his capacity, but he cannot be all things to all people and he should not try to be. He will have to be imaginative to solve the issue. On...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is not a show trial, so the Minister is all right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I do not get to attend most of the meetings of this committee. I think this is just the second meeting I have attended. I cannot be in two places at the same time.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: That is all factual.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: It does not deal with what is facing us.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: There was no more money available to the Department of Justice and Equality either.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Is there not a built-in contingency in this regard every year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: If the State Claims Agency is left out and indexed separately, is the Minister confident that he-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: Okay.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: What about the capital side?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: How will they be funded?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: We will know early next year.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I accept all of that. As we face into a very difficult winter, the Irish people will find it immoral if there are private hospitals advertising for patients while accident and emergency departments in public hospitals are jammed with people on trolleys. The Minister needs to deal with this. I intend to keep raising it. It is completely immoral for this to be happening in 2016 and 2017. I...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I accept that it is not a silver bullet, but it will help.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Update On Health Issues: Discussion (10 Nov 2016)

Alan Kelly: I accept that.