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Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: I wish the Minister and the Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, well in what is a very difficult area. This is their first engagement of many and I congratulate them on their appointments. Their combined age is probably younger than some of their predecessors singular.

Estimates for Public Services 2016 (16 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: With regard to the Estimates, most of us who observe these things knew this day would come and the €500 million is obviously necessary now. This has been going on for decades under Fianna Fáil and other Governments. It is like a figure is picked from the sky for the health budget and it is constantly supplemented, as everyone knows. We cannot continue like this. Collectively,...

Other Questions: Job Creation Targets (15 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Minister has stated funding of up to €250 million is available. As I hate the phrase "up to", what is the figure? Is it €250 million? Will all of it be spent? I am sure the Minister will say, "Yes," but will she tell us how it will be spent? "Up to €250 million" could mean €5, €250 million or anywhere in between. A bugbear of mine, about which...

Other Questions: Job Creation Targets (15 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: If the Minister digs deep, she will find out that is not true.

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (15 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: I have three questions. First, I welcome the Minister's statement that 58% of all visits this year have been to locations outside Dublin, but I ask her to break it down for us. If she cannot break it down by county, perhaps she can do so by region. If she does not have that information to hand, she might forward it on to us as soon as possible. Second, I suggest that the manner in which...

Other Questions: IDA Site Visits (15 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: I asked three questions.

Offences against the State (Amendment) Act 1998: Motion (14 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: I am speaking on behalf of our justice spokesperson, Deputy Brendan Howlin, and on behalf of the Labour Party. While we intend to support these motions, I want to express serious reservations about the technical procedures we adopt. In doing so, I recognise I am open to the charge that precisely the same procedures were adopted when we were in government. That is true, and it is also true...

Leaders' Questions (14 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: That is impossible.

Insurance Costs: Motion [Private Members] (8 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: The Labour Party will support the motion which is a good one. I congratulate my colleagues across the floor on putting it forward. It is very badly needed and many in the House will support it. We need it because we need to do something about the insurance industry. It is as simple as that. I have seen this before in other areas also and the industry certainly needs the scrutiny of this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (2 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: 55. To ask the Minister for Health the reason there is no commitment on delivering an extended range of general practitioner services in the new programme for Government; and how he will develop the delivery of key health services at general practitioner and primary care level, including direct access for general practitioners to ultrasound and X-ray services, enhanced minor surgery services,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Practitioner Services Provision (2 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: 82. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to roll-out free general practitioner care for the entire population, given the success of the programme for children under six years of age and adults over 70 years of age; if he will confirm that he has not abandoned the roll-out of free general practitioner care to other cohorts of the population; and the estimated timeline for this programme....

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: Hear, hear.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: We call on the Government to legislate for the protection of workers in these "informal insolvency" and collective redundancy situations. Tesco is seeking to rewrite the contracts of some of its workers without adequate justification or the agreement of their representatives. I welcome that Tesco has recently chosen to negotiate with Mandate as the representative body of the workers where...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: Further, it is my fundamental belief as a former SIPTU shop steward that people have a right to feel safe and secure in their workplaces. The Government must legislate to provide statutory redress for the victims of workplace bullying. I wish to highlight the rights of workers beyond PAYE employees. We must support small businesses, local enterprises and the self-employed but this...

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: It is clear that Sinn Féin would rather party political point scoring than meaningful engagement on this issue-----

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: This speaks to Sinn Féin's true intentions. While the Labour Party in the Republic is trying to form a coalition of political thought and trade unions to tackle if-and-when and zero-hour contracts-----

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: -----Sinn Féin in government in Northern Ireland stands over one of the highest proliferation rates of zero-hour contracts of anywhere in the whole world.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: Let me repeat that: anywhere in the whole world.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: Do something about it.

Workers' Rights: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (1 Jun 2016)

Alan Kelly: While the Labour Party struggled against conservative interests trying to undermine trade union rights during the previous Government, which was a battle that we won, Sinn Féin cheerleaded hard-left Governments across Europe that equivocated on public sector pensions and collective bargaining rights-----