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Seanad: Order of Business (5 Mar 2015)

John Kelly: ...the way forward is to close satellite clinics or community welfare offices. We have received categoric assurances from the Department of Social Protection and the Minister that where somebody feels discommoded and cannot travel to a clinic, the community welfare officer will call out to his or her house. Nobody will be left without a service.

Seanad: Finance Bill 2014: Second Stage (4 Dec 2014)

John Kelly: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The budget was a good one and did not get the media attention it deserved. It lost out to the water issue. People will start to feel the budget in their pockets from the beginning of the year. Maybe then we will see an appreciation of what the budget contained. I recognise the moves that have been made in the budget to tackle USC this year....

Seanad: Health Services: Statements (4 Nov 2014)

John Kelly: ...assist them. The family are out fund-raising to save the lives of their three children. Not enough is being done for them. As other speakers have mentioned, I wish to raise the frustration people feel dealing with the PCRS when trying to acquire a medical card. I was a community welfare officer for 28 years dealing with medical cards at a local level on Roscommon. There were no issues...

Seanad: Youth Guarantee and Rent Supplement: Statements (28 May 2014)

John Kelly: ...youth guarantee scheme? I met a man I know this morning on the way to work. He is in his 60s and he cannot get into a community employment scheme because he is not in receipt of the dole as his wife has a job. I feel sorry for such people because they are all willing to work, and there are many more unemployed people than is reflected in the register. I have always had an issue with the...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Medical Card Eligibility (7 May 2014)

John Kelly: ...cards increased, not by much, on 31 December. For the past six or seven years there has been no increase. That is a problem. Everybody from the young to the old, the disabled to the deserving, feels intimidated by the review process. Cards validated into the future are being withdrawn or reviewed. People feel that the Health Service Executive, HSE, is trying to find the €37...

Seanad: Homelessness Strategy: Motion (5 Feb 2014)

John Kelly: ...fact that should be taken into consideration. Since coming to Dublin, I have met with many homeless people. They are all over the place, including in doorways, and are often begging for money. I feel sorry for them and often to talk to them. I know from talking to a number of them - this matter was touched on earlier by Senators Hayden and Landy - that a homeless person who receives a...

Seanad: Order of Business (5 Nov 2013)

John Kelly: ...for a broad debate on the Grid25 project. I have raised the issue on numerous occasions. Does the Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources and EirGrid have a sense of the feelings that exist among people who are opposed to these pylons being erected within 50 m of their homes? People across the country are ready to rebel on the issue. I know that people are prepared...

Seanad: Pathways to Work Strategy: Statements (25 Sep 2013)

John Kelly: ...has frustrated taxpayers for years. As the Minister knows, I was a community welfare officer for 28 years and I have worked with all of the various types of people who are unemployed. The ones I feel most sorry for are those who have been affected by the recent Celtic tiger crash as they are suffering more than anyone else. The reason for this is that, throughout the Celtic tiger era,...

Seanad: Order of Business (3 Jul 2013)

John Kelly: ...well. He might not like to admit that, but fair play to all concerned. The issue I wish to raise, like Senator MacSharry, is the code of conduct for the banks. I raised this issue a week ago as I feel very strongly about it. The point I made a week ago was that when we were voting on the Personal Insolvency Bill, if we had been privy to what was happening in Anglo Irish Bank and other...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Marian Harkin, MEP (2 May 2013)

John Kelly: ...all of those ill-informed comments were frequently thrown around. Thankfully, with the strengthening of the European Parliament's powers via the Lisbon treaty, that has all changed. I sincerely feel the outreach initiative is a fantastic way of ensuring productive lines of communication are maintained between the Oireachtas and the European Parliament. We in the Oireachtas, especially in...

Seanad: Address to Seanad Éireann by Ms Nessa Childers, MEP (1 May 2013)

John Kelly: ...the time one was dealing mainly with people on social welfare, but the new poor today are the middle income earners, the gardaí, nurses and teachers. No more blood can be sucked out of them. I feel very strongly, along Ms Childers's lines, that there must be another way forward. As Senator Landy said, we have been the best boy in the class and we have done as much as we can do....

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Hospital Services (12 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: ...accident and emergency department in Wexford General Hospital, has re-opened the debate on the accident and emergency department in Roscommon County Hospital. The people of Roscommon quite rightly feel aggrieved because instead of HIQA shutting down the accident and emergency department, investment could have been made in it to ensure it was up to the required standard. We must bear in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Rural Communities Report: Discussion with Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government (12 Feb 2013)

John Kelly: I welcome the Minister and what he is seeking to do in trying to revive rural areas. I feel as if I am living two separate lives. I come to Dublin for three or four days a week and the place is hopping. When I go home, the complete opposite in the case. It is all doom and gloom. There is absolutely nothing happening in smaller towns. Obviously many people have emigrated, although...

Seanad: Adjournment Matters: Mental Health Services (5 Dec 2012)

John Kelly: ...Galway could get a promotion in Roscommon. There would be no border issues in such circumstances. The community occupational therapist who is employed by the health service in Roscommon does not feel qualified to deal with most severe or acute cases of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, in particular. I know from talking to those involved that cases of attention deficit...

Seanad: HSE National Service Plan: Statements, Questions and Answers (14 Feb 2012)

John Kelly: ...million provided for the psychiatric services in the national service plan. I know that front line services right across the country are being run at skeletal levels. Even at this stage, nurses feel threatened and afraid to go to work. I welcome the extension of medical cards to long-term illness patients, but the Minister should consider including people with cancer. They should have...

Seanad: Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill 2011: Second Stage (8 Feb 2012)

John Kelly: ...patients should not have to pay extra to have their bloods taken. The practice that the Minister described as having the shoe box on the table should also be outlawed. Elderly people should not feel obliged to give their doctors additional money to get better care. If they want to give the money to the Department of Health, we could put it to better use than giving it to well-paid GPs....

Seanad: Report by Interdepartmental Working Group on Mortgage Arrears: Statements (Resumed) (25 Oct 2011)

John Kelly: ...during discussions and negotiations with lenders. When will this agency be set up? It is urgent. Will it be an arm of MABS or a totally new agency? With regard to third-party guarantees, I feel sorry for elderly persons who guaranteed loans on very expensive homes for younger people. I have stated before the not widely known fact that where one guaranteed a loan for a borrower 20 years...

Seanad: Progress on the 20 Year Strategy for the Irish Language: Statements (9 Jun 2011)

John Kelly: I married a native Irish speaker from Gweedore who is an Irish teacher and I am ashamed that I would feel it easier to address the Minister of State in Spanish on matters relating to the Irish language than in Irish. However, I firmly believe that most Irish people have a genuine grá for the language. It does not necessarily follow, though, that they are in favour of the current compulsory...

Seanad: Tourism Sector: Motion (1 Jun 2011)

John Kelly: ...markets. As I noted last week, it was significant that NBC covered President Obama's visit to Moneygall for ten minutes. The future of our tourism produce lies in a focus on rural Ireland. I feel passionately about the opportunities that could arise from making use of the social welfare budget for tourism purposes. If, for example, an employer was given 50% of the social welfare payment...