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Public Accounts Committee: RTÉ Commercial Arrangements: Mr. Ryan Tubridy and Mr. Noel Kelly (11 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...sharp answers purely because of time; I am not trying to be rude or anything. I think all of us here know that this is this is not accurate. Was Mr. Tubridy doing the same number of hours on all the shows? Are we comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges? Was there a change between 2015 to 2019 and 2019 to 2023 regarding Mr. Tubridy's hours of work? We can then correlate...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues (11 Dec 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...needed. I have made a comparison between the resources at UHL and at Beaumont Hospital and the disparity is frightening. These are similar hospitals in similar areas. While it is true that apples cannot be compared with apples or oranges with oranges in the context of hospitals, the differential in staff numbers, including doctors, nurses and administrative staff, is huge and makes no...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (26 Sep 2019)

Alan Kelly: The point raised by Deputy Murphy has highlighted an issue for me. In this correspondence reference is made to certain barristers’ legal fees. In regard to the Apple case, for some time now, through parliamentary questions and other formats, I have been trying to get the fees paid to certain barristers and information on whether they have any other public sector jobs and,...

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Alan Kelly: .... Some GPs practice fantastically not a large amount of referrals. Some others who have a significant amount of referrals do not. I am not saying every area is the same. One is not comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges. In general, however, there should be some form of trend. I hope that data is being gathered as part of this process as it all would help us. ...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Children’s Hospital: National Paediatric Hospital Development Board (16 Jan 2019)

Alan Kelly: ...here. I do not accept that this is international best practice because of the circumstances in this case. When it comes to best practice, we are not comparing like with like. It is not apples and apples and oranges and oranges, it is a completely different jurisdiction so there is no best practice. This is the first time ever and to be frank, we obviously have failed massively. There...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Hospital Services: Discussion (Resumed) (11 Jul 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...documents after the previous meeting and I saw his contribution. On nurses' pay and conditions, I am not sure what planet the Deputy is on. As far as I am concerned, he was not comparing apples with apples or oranges with oranges. There is a crisis in nursing in the country. There is a crisis in the area of workforce planning in relation to doctors, GP contracts going nowhere and...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2016: Higher Education Authority, University College Cork and Cork Institute of Technology (24 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...were written to the committee three years apart, indicating that the costs were over €752,000 three years ago, and are now €571,000. Two years have passed and the costs have decreased. Apples with apples, oranges with oranges is the argument. However, I have checked that out, and even allowing for that the figures do not add up. This is a pretty urgent thing, given the...

Public Accounts Committee: Business of Committee (10 May 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...measuring of national output and income, that is, gross domestic product, GDP, gross national product, GNP, gross national income, GNI and modified gross national interest, GNI*, an update on the Apple escrow fund, Ireland's contribution to the EU budget and components of the national debt figure. That is noted. No. 1273 is from the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform, dated 3...

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Chapter 4 - Overview of Public Private Partnerships (22 Mar 2018)

Alan Kelly: ...put Mr. Kennedy on the spot. Can Mr. Watt say whether this would have met the requirements of the process by which we assessed PPPs, given the figures we now have? I know that it is comparing apples and oranges, but in general would that be the case? For the taxpayer, the figures are astronomical.

Public Accounts Committee: 2016 Annual Report and Appropriation Accounts of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Vote 26 - Education and Skills - Reform of Education and Training Boards/SOLAS
SOLAS 2016 Financial Statements
Comptroller and Auditor General Special Report No. 99 - Public Sector Financial Reporting for 2015 (16 Nov 2017)

Alan Kelly: I am anxious to ensure I get precisely the information I am requesting. I submitted a parliamentary question on this issue and the answer was not great. I realise it cannot exactly be a case of apples with apples and oranges with oranges, but I am asking, in the context of the remit of the former vocational education committees and the broader remit of the ETBs, for a breakdown of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2017: Vote 38 - Department of Health (27 Sep 2017)

Alan Kelly: I have no problem with that but it is not comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges because if one considers the mid-west area, a brand new three and a half time capacity emergency department was opened but the volume of people going to it went up by 40%. The real issue is how can one measure apples with apples and oranges with oranges if the Minister is comparing Beaumont or...

Government Appeal of European Commission Decision on State Aid to Apple: Motion (7 Sep 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...supports the Commission and is negative to the view espoused by Ireland. The judgment in these cases, due around the end of this year, will have a decisive influence on the outcome of an appeal in the Apple case. I would very much appreciate it if the Ministers could ask the Minister for Finance to comment on those issues. The details are critical to this debate.

Social Housing: Motion [Private Members] (26 Jan 2016)

Alan Kelly: ...have since increased to a figure of 130,000 on the basis of information obtained from current local authority files is flawed. Basic mathematics show this. It does not compare like with like, apples with apples or oranges with oranges. It does not even consider the number of local authority lists that some tenants are on.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Review of Estimates for Public Services 2015
Vote 34 - Department of the Environment, Community and Local Government (24 Nov 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...by the Housing Agency. That is a critical issue because we need to ensure we have consistency on housing numbers and those who have social housing requirements in years to come. We can then compare apples with apples and oranges with oranges. For example, there were figures in respect of the number of people in Cork who needed social housing. There was then a choice-based analysis...

Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (28 Jan 2015)

Alan Kelly: ...given. They have been the same all the time. They show that there will be a huge push in 2015 towards meeting the needs of the volume of people concerned. The Deputy is not comparing apples with apples or oranges with oranges as regards previous spends. We are getting into the process of rebuilding social houses, council houses, the building of which should not have been stopped in the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Water Meters Expenditure (2 Dec 2014)

Alan Kelly: ...experience of the non-domestic metering programme, the group water sector and market soundings, as there was no precedent for a programme of this scale over a very short duration. We were not necessarily comparing apples with apples and oranges with oranges. The estimate was based on much smaller-scale projects than the national domestic metering programme and was not a definitive...

Topical Issue Debate: Community Development Projects (5 Nov 2014)

Alan Kelly: ...period from April to December 2015, as opposed to a 12-month period. This may be reflected in some calculations. The 2014 budget for LCDPs was based on a 12-month period. Therefore, we are not comparing apples with apples in some cases. The programme’s target groups are children and families from disadvantaged areas; lone parents; members of new communities, including refugees...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (12 Mar 2013)

Alan Kelly: ...or change of vehicle will also need to be notified. I understand that the NTA has made available free IT tools to facilitate the notification process - the "Taxi Industry Portal" smartphone application can be downloaded onto both Apple and Android smartphones. In addition, SPSV operators can use any PC or laptop to access the Taxi Portal over the Internet. A...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (5 Mar 2013)

Alan Kelly: ...agreements or change of vehicle will also need to be notified. I understand that the NTA has made available free IT tools to facilitate the notification process - the "Taxi Industry Portal" smartphone application can be downloaded onto both Apple and Android smartphones. In addition, SPSV operators can use any PC or laptop to access the Taxi Portal over the...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Taxi Regulations (12 Feb 2013)

Alan Kelly: ...change of vehicle will need to be notified. I understand that free IT tools are available to facilitate this notification process, The "Taxi Industry Portal" smartphone application can be downloaded onto both Apple and Android smartphones. In addition, SPSV operators can use any PC or laptop to access the Taxi Portal over the Internet. A call centre is currently...