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Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (2 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...; if he will outline in detail the nature of the error; if the error will lead to an additional cost of €468,000 over the next five years; the steps being taken to ensure that such an error does not reoccur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52003/21]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Education (2 Nov 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...Awards process; the details of the nature of the error; if the error will lead to an additional cost of €468,000 over the next five years; the steps being taken to ensure that such an error does not reoccur; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [52019/21]

Financial Resolutions 2021 - Financial Resolution No. 2: General (Resumed) (13 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...of electricity and gas many times. I can guarantee every Member that, unfortunately, a winter of discontent lies ahead due to soaring prices and supply chain problems. The €5 per week increase in social welfare payments does not go far enough to protect those on the lowest incomes. Since 2019, inflation has increased by 4.3% and the Government's figures predict a rise of 3.7%...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (13 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...there is no timely surgery. We all know it is a worse outcome. I committed to raising this yesterday. I was driving a car when I heard this, and I got upset. I have a ten-year-old son who does not have these issues, but I would do absolutely anything to ensure he got the best treatment. That is what Christine and her family are doing. There are 172 children waiting for scoliosis...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (5 Oct 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...some of them. I have, however, never seen a launch of a national development plan, which aims to bring certainty to projects, actually create more uncertainty about their possibility than this one does. Even before it was announced, confusion abounded in the press conferences beforehand. The Minister of State, Deputy Ossian Smyth, said this morning that none of the projects in the...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...the grid. Amazingly, as the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, he did not know the answer. When IDA Ireland is attracting companies here, and I have often complimented it for the work it does, do we actually index the load requirements of the industry we are bringing in? Do we do a cost-benefit analysis, for want of a better phrase? We have had our debate on data centres...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (15 Sep 2021)

Alan Kelly: I deliberately asked the Taoiseach this question today because I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt that there is a learning here for his Government as regards all the areas and how it does its work. It is also important that, as I stand here and ask the Taoiseach that question, I say quite clearly that short-termism has to end. We need to deliver on Sláintecare over the next...

Health (Amendment) (No.2) Bill 2021: Second Stage (14 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...to be enforced. Many people working in hospitality are young. They will not be able to enforce this on the front line. There is going to be no follow-up on it. What will the HSA be able to do? The HSE certainly will not be doing anything relating to it. First, it does not want to, because it has enough to do. Second, it does not have the resources. As regards An Garda...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Offices (13 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Three Ministers said three different things and the Taoiseach does not know.

CervicalCheck Tribunal (Amendment) Bill 2021: Second Stage (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...the State of €600,000 a year. It is not good. This legislation is required because the term of the tribunal must be extended given the circumstances in which we have found ourselves in the past year, but it does not deal with the fundamentals of how we ended up here. This is flawed. I have probably met more of the women and their families than anyone else in this House, but I...

Ceisteanna - Questions: European Council (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...tell the House whether the timelines will be met? Will it be paper-based? When will these start to be posted out? Will it be Monday? I will not hold him to it but what percentage of people does he expect will have them next week, before 19 July? There will be issues, but does he predict that a large number of people will receive them next week? My next question relates to long...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...the SHD system was introduced. An Bord Pleanála will now have 16 weeks to hear and decide on an appeal. I have raised the matters of An Bord Pleanála and its resources continually in the Dáil. It does not have enough resources. It is making mistakes and losing court cases hand over fist. Will the Taoiseach ensure it has enough resources? The issues relating to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...that financially and-or through additional leave. We need to show them how appreciative we are. In February last, the Tánaiste suggested that they be given a cash payment or additional leave. Does the Taoiseach agree that the payment is just and needs to be addressed? Will the Government table a proposal to compensate the healthcare workers? I do not believe the HSE, at...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (7 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...do this, it will do it. Will you please do that? At this stage, we have - have to - to acknowledge the work and efforts of all these workers. Platitudes, I am sorry, do not work anymore. That does not show respect.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Bodies (6 Jul 2021)

Alan Kelly: Is it something the Taoiseach would consider and this unit will look into? That is what I am asking. Does the Taoiseach endorse it? We all have to rebalance our lives after the pandemic. The second issue, which I do not have time to dwell on, is that of a catch-up programme for schools. My colleagues, Deputy Ó Ríordáin and Senator Bacik, have been pushing this for some...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (30 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...that unvaccinated people should not travel, even with a clear test. Obviously, we are not taking action on that because it would be contrary to European law. I find it totally bizarre that NPHET does not work within the parameter of the law of the land given that we are part of Europe. There is nothing wrong with saying that. I am very supportive of public health, but surely it must be...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (30 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: It does not. Non-discriminatory and European law is not new.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Economic Policy (23 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...further emergency legislation, but it will not deal with the issues in respect of which renters need a break. We need to close the loophole in regard to the 8% rent increase. The Bill, as published, does not do that. It merely extends protections for those who proactively register as financially impacted by Covid-19 and makes exceptions for people experiencing an extreme financial...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (23 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: I will conclude. If the group does not, in a short period, say, a month or so, meet the Minister and say that it will gift the land to the State, I ask that the Taoiseach pursue a full CPO of the whole site.

National Maternity Hospital: Motion [Private Members] (23 Jun 2021)

Alan Kelly: ...the Minister's question. Is it for the national maternity services of Ireland, as part of the greater national maternity strategy, of which I am a huge supporter? Or is it because the hospital group does not want to relinquish control? It is the latter. The documents, which the group had to release, in fairness, because my colleague, Senator Bacik, who has fought on this for years,...