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

Alan Kelly: From my experience, this work is very hard.

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

Alan Kelly: I have personal knowledge of this. The pay simply is not worth the lifestyle. That has to be addressed. Maybe Tusla is going about it with this inter-agency piece and it will bubble up from it, but that has to happen.

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

Alan Kelly: That is a broader issue. Recently, and I will not cross the line, in the Supreme Court there was a number of orders whereby it was held that Tusla would be held in contempt in relation to two cases of two children where there was a failure to apply for special orders in relation to them. This is also pretty bad. The issue that is emanating from this is that Tusla could not find places....

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

Alan Kelly: How is Tusla going to deal with that? Will Mr. Ó Conaill or whomever outline what is being done to put that on a statutory basis and make it in some way functional?

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

Alan Kelly: That sounds good.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: No, I watched it.

RTÉ: Statements (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: I do not know the Minister well personally but I have always found her to be fine. However, I have to say that I have found her to be very much a hands-off Minister. I said previously that when she equivocated in relation to people paying their licence fee that was a sign of how she was handling this issue, and it was not good. I also said previously at the public accounts committee that...

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

Alan Kelly: I want to ask the Minister about Nenagh community nursing home. I announced funding for this nursing home, which will be the most state-of-the-art nursing home in Ireland. Funding was provided in 2016 and it went for planning in 2019. We built it beside the hospital in Nenagh. The Minister for Health, in May 2022, told me it would be open by the middle of 2023. The construction and so on...

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.

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Ukraine War (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 7. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if further sanctions were discussed at the most recent EU Foreign Affairs Council Meeting to be applied on Belarus due to its involvement in the war with Ukraine. [9535/24]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Departmental Meetings (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 8. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has spoken with the Brazilian Ambassador to Ireland to date in 2024. [9536/24]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Cycling Facilities (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 22. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the amount of funding that was provided for cycling facilities in County Tipperary in 2023 and the expected funding for same in 2024, in tabular form [9530/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Yield (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 29. To ask the Minister for Finance the cost of abolishing stamp duty on first time buyers of homes of less than €385,000. [9532/24]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Vehicle Registration Tax (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 30. To ask the Minister for Finance the amount of revenue that would be generated if the late registration fee of 0.1% was increased to 0.45% for each day over 30 days for which vehicles remain unregistered for VRT based on 2023 figures. [9533/24]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Appointments Service (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 34. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if the Public Appointment Service will hold general civil service competitions for individuals with fluency in Irish at administrative officer and assistant principal officer level during Q2 in 2024. [9537/24]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: National Cultural Institutions (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 62. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht the current members of the Irish Museum of Modern Art; and the Minister that appointed each member [9539/24]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authorities (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the number of funding requests his Department received from Tipperary County Council towards purchasing additional fire appliances in the years 2022, 2023 and to date in 2024; of the funding requests received, the number that were approved per year in tabular form. [9540/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: An Garda Síochána (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 91. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the Garda divisions currently without a crime prevention officer in tabular form. [9534/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Special Educational Needs (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 107. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the number of HSE funded therapists that have been allocated to special schools in County Tipperary in tabular form. [9531/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (28 Feb 2024)

Alan Kelly: 147. To ask the Minister for Health if he plans to open an accident and emergency department in Nenagh and or Ennis hospitals, given the terrible situation regarding access to University Hospital Limerick; and if not, his new plans to alleviate overcrowding in UHL. [9472/24]