Results 1-20 of 784 for long speaker:Alan Kelly

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

Alan Kelly: ...taken by the pillar banks. Some of the processors have put forward very good incentives and schemes to help the farmers. Fair play to Tirlán, which is paying a 3 cent per litre top-up on milk, along with other support payments. Other co-ops are doing other things. It shows some solidarity. In my introduction I talked about us having almost a plan which encourages rather than...

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

Alan Kelly: 152. To ask the Minister for Health the number of long- and short-stay nursing home beds in counties Tipperary, Clare, and Limerick, in tabular form; and whether they are from public or private providers. [15596/24]

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

Alan Kelly: ...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 have no issue with the acting senior managers in finance and HR. They are two very fine people. How long have those positions been vacant? In other words, how long has it been since there has been someone permanent in HR?

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

Alan Kelly: ...the legislation. The Child Care (Amendment) Act 2022 provides a statutory basis for the establishment of an independent guardian ad litem executive office. Where is this at? The C and AG has a long history in relation to this going back to 2025. It was referenced again in another report, the year of which I cannot remember exactly. This is going on and on. It seems to be an ad hoc...

Reform of the Television Licence Fee Model: Motion [Private Members] (13 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...in consult with the Communications Workers Union, CWU, on this populist move. CWU members have been ringing us, and I presume Sinn Féin, as they are worried about hundreds of jobs in An Post in Dublin, which will no longer exist if we go down the road outlined in the motion. Maybe Sinn Féin should talk to some of its TD colleagues in Dublin. It will be told about the phone...

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: Can I ask Mr. Justice MacCabe, Ms Logan and Mr. Hume how long each of them is in their current position?

Public Accounts Committee: Financial Statements 2022 - Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (8 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: ...are not going to be referred to. Why is GSOC not, in the public interest, investigating what happened here? Why is it not investigating the investigators and investigating why these cases took so long? People's lives were effectively destroyed. Psychiatric help was needed and families were affected. The impact of all of this on some of these members is frankly outrageous. I just want...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2022
Vote 29 - Environment, Climate and Communications
Financial Statements 2022: Sustainability Energy Authority of Ireland
2022 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General
Chapter 8: Performance of Certain Residential Retrofit Schemes (9 Nov 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...human resource issue with regard to the volume of people, and I hope the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Deputy Simon Harris, will deal with this in the long term. However, through our clinics again, there are some issues that come up with regard to contractors and how they are acting, and I would encourage SEAI to deal with them. Even last...

Home Care Workers and Home Support Scheme: Motion [Private Members] (8 Nov 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...workers wanting to end up working for the HSE? The bit people fail to see here is that not alone is this the best for our elderly people, it is the best for our pocket. This is like an accordion. The longer people can be kept at home, the longer they can be kept out of nursing homes and the longer they can be kept from going from nursing homes into acute care. Every step up is far more...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...on in the past. I ask for short answers to my questions because our time is obviously limited. I am not being rude; it is just the way we have to work. Deputy Catherine Murphy and I have a long track record on this issue going back to a previous Committee of Public Accounts. I think it was in February 2019 that I asked the then Secretary General if this whole project would come in at...

Public Accounts Committee: Children’s Health Ireland and National Paediatric Hospital Development Board: Discussion (19 Oct 2023)

Alan Kelly: Let me just get it straight. Mr. Gunning has had a long history in this and in fairness to him, he has given very direct answers, I do not think there is a snowball's chance of the October deadline being met next year. In fairness to Mr. Gunning, he actually conditioned it in his commentary and in what he wrote, to protect himself. I think he is right. I do not think there is a snowball's...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...than we ever were. Seriously, the public are looking in. We are trying to do a job. It feels like as committee members, we are nearly living together given that we have been at this for so long. It is actually more confusing now than it ever was. I have gone through every piece of documentation, up and down and in and out. Six or seven members of the media have been on to me in the...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ (Resumed): RTÉ (13 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: Yes, as long as you are quick, because I am conscious of time.

Investment in Football: Motion [Private Members] (12 Jul 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...that has no facilities. They are trying to buy somewhere at the moment and I am trying to help them. Nenagh Celtic is a club in my home town which comes from very much working-class areas and has a long history. It has no facilities. There are hundreds of examples my colleagues will go through as well. This is not sustainable. It is unfair, wrong and discriminatory. Football is a...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation and Expenditure of Public Moneys by RTÉ: Discussion (29 Jun 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...have to go back. I remember the scenarios whereby a bike was brought on to the show for a former host of "The Late Late Show" or the golf clubs that were given to Ryan Tubridy. We have to go back a long way. I want the barter accounts for the past 20 years. If there are more of them, so be it. The witnesses have already agreed to provide details of their salaries to us next week,...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (13 Jun 2023)

Alan Kelly: 1114. To ask the Minister for Health the estimated number of long-stay elderly care beds there will be in Roscrea town following the proposed purchase of a nursing home (details supplied) in the town this year, as proposed in the 2023 HSE capital plan. [27169/23]

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...on forestry but I think they have been dealt with exhaustively. I share some of the concerns of previous speakers. I have been chasing various different licences on behalf of constituents for so long it is just insane. I believe there is a process issue and a staffing issue, to be honest. This should not be going on as long as it has been. There is a process issue somewhere here. If...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...Department of the Environment, Climate and Communications; it is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. The process of setting up MARA has taken too long. The CEO has not been appointed. It was all meant to be set up by the first quarter of this year in order to be taking applications by the second or third quarter. I expect that this is not...

Public Accounts Committee: Appropriation Accounts 2021
Vote 30 - Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine - 2021 Financial Statements
Fishery Harbour Centres (4 May 2023)

Alan Kelly: First, where are we with protected destinations of origin, PDOs, and protected geographical indications, PGIs, as regards food? I raised the issue a long time ago when I was a Member of the European Parliament. We were way behind other European countries on that. The witnesses might give us an update on that. Second, what is being done, and how much communication is there with Greyhound...