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Weather-Related Supports for Farmers: Statements (Resumed) (24 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I very much welcome this debate. We should have had it, though, some time ago. I will not lay all the blame for that at the Minister's doorstep considering how early Easter was, St. Patrick's Day and the appointment of a new Taoiseach, etc. There was a lot of time taken up in not being in here and with other business. As the Minister is probably well aware, I live in the midst of a...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (24 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I was delighted to hear in the Taoiseach's maiden speech that he would "ensure a step change in how we care for our elderly". As the Taoiseach is aware, this is completely at odds with the decision of the HSE to annex the new 50-bed nursing home unit in Nenagh which was built because the St. Conlon's community nursing unit was effectively condemned by HIQA and has to be closed. I am aware...

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Childcare Services (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: 547. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he will meet with an organisation (details supplied) regarding its ongoing funding issues. [17629/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Emergency Accommodation (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: 548. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of Ukrainian refugees and international protection applicants, respectively, housed in each local election area as of 16 April 2024. [17632/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (23 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: 684. To ask the Minister for Health when and how did the HSE contact HIQA to inform them they were not going to be applying for registration of the new Nenagh community nursing home in 2024. [18016/24]

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I thank the Chair. I have an awful lot of questions so I will also come in for a second time. I very much welcome all the officials. They will know I have asked questions about Baggot Street hospital. I worked across the road from it for years at Bord Fáilte. Why that building is not being used is beyond my comprehension. I do not buy the arguments. With respect to the Chair,...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Will the Department meet with Nenagh Childcare Centre? The centre obviously has a certain isolated issue relating to how it is funded. I would appreciate it if the Department would do that and confirm it.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: The centre has had no fruitful success in relation to changing or re-funding its model. It is in crisis, effectively.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Thank you. We had a meeting with Tusla here some time ago. The officials are well aware of it. An issue of concern was raised relating to private companies hiring unvetted workers. I do not want Mr. McCarthy to provide information on that, but he is obviously well aware of it and it is of deep concern. Will he provide documentation relating to correspondence between the Department and...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I noticed there have been changes in that regard. That is fine. I will be a bit parochial in my example. Others have said this too but if the Department had a choice again, would it have taken over the hotel in Roscrea?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: It is, obviously, the last social venue and it causes huge issues in an area. To be fair to the people of Roscrea, who I represent, it caused huge issues to an area in which a significant number of people were already being accommodated, and accommodated very well, by the way.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am sorry for the time clock, but just-----

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Common sense would have said this is the only hotel in the town. It is like Drogheda. I appreciate Drogheda is a different scale to Roscrea, but is it not just a bit of common sense? Now, it is a criterion afterwards.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Let me go about it another way. The decision has also been made as part of this that the Government is going to buy another hotel. I have spoken to at least a dozen Ministers in this Government and they laugh at this, including some of the Ministers involved. They laugh at the idea that the Government is buying hotels because they took over a hotel in the town. People are rolling their...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: Where is it at?

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I would appreciate that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: As Mr. McCarthy is aware, I had to wait for about three months to get these statistics with regard to the number of beneficiaries of temporary protection, BOTP, and international protection, IP, applicants broken down by local electoral area, LEA. I do not think they are public. That is not the issue. I believe that information provision and transparency are the Department's friends with...

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: I understand that.

Public Accounts Committee: 2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (18 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: However, another hotel has gone in Kenmare in the last week or so and there are no extra places in Killiney-Shankill.