Results 21-40 of 785 for long speaker:Alan Kelly

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...

Education and the School Building Programme: Motion [Private Members] (29 Mar 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...on his father's land overnight, he could not get on it because it was oversubscribed. Eventually, we got there, but we all know of hundreds of cases like this across the country, with people contacting us all year long. This is something that is very easy to solve. The co-ordination between the Departments of Education and Transport could be looked at. I suggested previously that this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Alan Kelly: 1490. To ask the Minister for Health the total compliment of long-stay beds HIQA approved in a nursing home (details supplied) in Roscrea in each of the years 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [13773/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (21 Mar 2023)

Alan Kelly: 1491. To ask the Minister for Health the total compliment of long-stay beds HIQA approved in a nursing home (details supplied) in each of the years 2016 to 2022 and to date in 2023, in tabular form. [13774/23]

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Financial Statements of the State Claims Agency: Discussion
Chapter 20: Management of the Clinical Indemnity Scheme of the Report on the Accounts of Public Services 2021 (2 Mar 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...mediation commenced? Amazingly, on most occasions it will be shown that it was quite close to the actual case. If the spirit of mediation were appropriately acted on, it would have been dealt with long ago. There is a lady currently going through the 11th day of her case. The idea that the State Claims Agency is acting in an expedient manner to try to deal with these cases quickly is...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: ...would not have supported this Bill if we had not taken the time to do what we did over the past few days. I have been raising the issue of the absence of audits for the past couple of years and long before we got back to this patient safety Bill. I am glad the Minister said this will be over ten years. That is good information, which I did not have. I want to check a point with the...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (14 Feb 2023)

Alan Kelly: As the Taoiseach knows, we have worked thoroughly on this Bill and in fairness to the Minister, he has come a long way with us. I admired what he did before Christmas because he is one of few Ministers who has ever stopped legislation proceeding, saying we needed more time. He has made changes that I thoroughly respect. The Minister knows, however, that this amendment regarding the time at...

Appointment of Ordinary Members of An Coimisiún Toghcháin: Motion (14 Dec 2022)

Alan Kelly: I welcome this day and it is something for which I have been advocating for a long time, as the Minister and his officials are aware. I have one issue however. It is five months since the Dáil passed the Electoral Reform Act 2022 and we only now have appointed the four ordinary members. As the Minister told the Dáil on 13 July that it was intended that the Electoral Commission be...

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Alan Kelly: .... In view of the level of analysis, therefore, this means that some women have passed away. The House is willing to facilitate this legislation. People do not mind if it goes into January as long as it is better and good legislation. The Minister mentioned the Seanad. I am not sure that is the right way to do this.

Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Report Stage (7 Dec 2022)

Alan Kelly: I welcome the fact that this legislation is before us. In fairness, this has gone on for a long time and I acknowledge that the Taoiseach made a commitment when Vicky Phelan passed away that it would be done. I also acknowledge the Minister's officials and the people who work with him. They met us earlier and went through my concerns and those of others and, in fairness, addressed some of...

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (27 Oct 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...had to engage in quite a number of emails and phone calls with Energia before the company admitted that it had been charging the wrong unit prices because his bill was estimated. It took him a long time to get this. They stated they were very sorry that they did not consider this. For how many more customers did the company not consider this? It was charging the wrong rate over an...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Chapter 13 - Guardian Ad Litem Follow-up Report (27 Oct 2022)

Alan Kelly: .... Has a contract been signed with them? Why did it take from April, when the Minister visited the sites - I have a reply to a parliamentary question on the matter? Why has it taken so long? That is just one minute aspect of a range of Departments that should be co-operating with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.

National Tourism Development Authority (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (18 Oct 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...in the next tourism season, which is incredible. There is not going to be enough accommodation and people are not going to be able to afford what is there because so much accommodation is going to be taken up for such a long period. We all know that. We need to look from a planning perspective at how we can accommodate, in cases, temporary accommodation. I am thinking of pods, modular...

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Alan Kelly: I have one other question on that. I know the building as I hung around University College Cork long enough many years ago. What is the differential between what has been paid in rent versus what the building could have been bought for?

Public Accounts Committee: 2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (29 Sep 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...what that means. I have a few questions about nursing homes, funding and recruitment. Regarding the recruitment of staff for home care packages, I always adopt the escalator approach. The longer we can keep people in their homes, the better for them. It is financially the best option by far. Then they may have to go to a nursing home and then if they are in an acute bed it is more...

Online Safety and Media Regulation Bill 2022: Second Stage (21 Sep 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...This Bill is trying to do so much in one go. The transposition of EU Directive No. 1808, the audiovisual media services directive, was commenced and has been going through the motions since as long ago as when I was an MEP. I sat on the consumer affairs committee and I remember that they were orienting towards looking at stuff like this at a very early stage, and that was a decade...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Horse Racing Industry (14 Jul 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...on capital programmes on the four largest racecourses, two of which it owns, at the expense of smaller rural racecourses. The Minister previously gave the direction that 50% should be used for long-term infrastructural projects, but that is not happening. We need to dig into the data and break down where the funding is going because this cannot continue. The Minister of State should go...

Consumer Rights Bill 2022: Report and Final Stages (29 Jun 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...we now know will take place in the insurance industry whereby customers who are loyal to whichever company they are subscribing with are not discriminated against. In other words, if you sign up for broadband, if you are a long-standing customer, if you sign up for your phone tariff, your television package or whatever else, you will not be discriminated against as a consumer because you...

Living Wage Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (11 May 2022)

Alan Kelly: ...can live. It is very simple. I was very interested in the Minister of State's closing remarks in which he said that the Government will not oppose the Bill, which is very welcome although it no longer really means much in this House. When the Minister of State and I first came in, that actually meant something, but there are now so many Bills sent off to never-never land that it does...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Rail Network (5 May 2022)

Alan Kelly: ..., Tourism and Sport further to Parliamentary Question No. 191 of 5 April 2022, (details supplied) if he will intervene to make specific, ring-fenced funding available in the 2023 IMMAC to begin the long-overdue process of automating the manual level crossings on this line; and if the line is to fulfil its obvious potential as a commuter line between Nenagh and Limerick which needs to...