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Road Safety and Maintenance: Motion [Private Members] (15 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...age. There are now 31,000 local authority staff. There were 38,000 in 2008. Even if they do not have the funding to do the work, managing water alone saves roads. That has been given up. It does not happen to the level required any more. We have changes in our weather patterns and we need more directly employed workers. I feel sorry every time I have to pick up the phone to ring...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...I wish to raise. This is like an episode of Hamlet without the prince. The prince was across the road in some establishment texting people here the last time. The prince is not here this time. Does Professor Kilcommins know who the chief corporate officer was texting at the last meeting?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Does Mr. Field have a different view from Professor Kilcommins? Better still, will he outline the concerns in the memo and when it was sent - briefly, as I am caught for time?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...to this issue. Will Dr. Wall provide all of it to this committee by return? That is all I ask. Professor Laffan provided a strong statement in which she said there would be consequences. Does she expect in the near future there will be a senior management review and significant changes? I live among people who work and go to college in UL. I drove my children around UL and told...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Does Professor Laffan foresee the possibility of changes at management level in the university? I think it is in her interest to answer this directly.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...Kilcommins a similar question to the one I asked Professor Laffan earlier. Professor Kilcommins is left in a very tricky situation, I might add. With the current structure of management in there, does Professor Kilcommins believe that every member of the team is pulling in the same direction?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: Professor Kilcommins does not see the need for any changes.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: University of Limerick (9 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I understand all that. What if Professor Kilcommins had a crystal ball, for instance? Does Professor Kilcommins see the exact same team in place in two or three years' time?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I think it will be needed. I know the Chair is passionate about this issue. My final point is that I think it does need a slight tweak in the legislation very quickly. On top of that, however, we should forget about pilots and it should be put out there and the communities that can come together will come together to do it.

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022: National Transport Authority (2 May 2024)

Alan Kelly: I think the legislation does need to be tweaked. I am aware of the issue.

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

Alan Kelly: ...was not a fodder scheme put in place, but I was also very surprised by what the Minister has said about the number of farmers who availed of what was put forward by Teagasc in relation to help. It does not tally with what I was hearing on the ground, but I respect and understand the figures. They obviously have to be accurate. I will make a couple of points on the transport scheme...

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: ...City Council as well. To be balanced and fair to the Department, what it faced was unprecedented. I accept that. There has been a huge amount of change in personnel. I cannot keep up with who does what on the departmental side because it changes so often. Staffing is obviously an issue in the Department. There is a huge amount of change around in respect of people. The Department...

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 Department does not necessarily survey the buildings but it works in conjunction with local authorities and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. If Mr. McCarthy does not know the answer, he should ask them and then revert to the committee. The presence of asbestos is sometimes used as an excuse for not using a building. I would like to know whether buildings are...

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 but I am caught for time. Does Ms Rooney have something to say about modular locations?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (10 Apr 2024)

Alan Kelly: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if he will outline, given his decision to repurpose the new 50-bed community nursing home unit in Nenagh, what he is proposing the HSE does now to substitute for this and to provide long- and short-term nursing home care to the people of Nenagh and north Tipperary. [15598/24]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (21 Mar 2024)

Alan Kelly: I am aware of that. Does the Garda Commissioner feel he would be better able to perform his function if that post was permanently filled?

General Practice and Local Health Services: Motion (20 Mar 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...to do this to the elderly. It is damn well not okay. I will oppose it with all my might and for passionate reasons, not for political reasons. I know it is damn wrong. Everyone in the HSE up to a certain level does not want this and they, too, know it is damn wrong. The people of Tipperary will not put up with this. I ask the Minister of State to please intervene with the HSE....

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: What does Ms Duggan-----

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Tusla-Child and Family Agency (29 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...is that Tusla could not find places. What is going to be done in the Department about this? It is pretty bad when the Supreme Court is going to say the Department will be held in contempt if it does not deal with this. In respect of guardians ad litem, I would like to ask the assistant secretary general about the legislation. The Child Care (Amendment) Act 2022 provides a statutory...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: He has come back in the last two weeks and told me he does not have a date.