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Other Questions: Public Transport Initiatives (22 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Paris, Madrid, Athens and Mexico have announced that they will ban diesel vehicles in their cities by 2025. We will fall even further behind those cities. Even if we convert to electric vehicles and trains, if the electricity that powers them is dirty and comes from peat, oil, coal and gas as it does at present, we will still have a problem. The burning of coal at Moneypoint will still be...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: On the second day of the O'Higgins commission investigation, the Garda Commissioner's legal team introduced the notion that Maurice McCabe had a grudge. Chief Superintendent Colm Rooney said that Maurice was angry and vicious and he wanted the Director of Public Prosecutions to overturn the directions on the Ms D file, not realising that Maurice had already seen them and they favoured him so...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Can the Minister confirm that a meeting did take place, if she does not know who attended it? Does she know if a meeting took place that weekend in preparation for the Monday when the Chief State Solicitor's office produced a five-page document which outlined the allegations against Maurice McCabe? When Maurice's legal team saw this he was able to contradict it with a transcript and a tape...

Justice Issues: Statements (21 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am not questioning the terms of reference. I know we met about them and, as the Minister knows, we insisted on communications with the Department and the Minister being included in them. We are not querying that. I am within my rights to ask the Minister the simple question and she has asked how could she possibly know about the meeting. I am asking did she know whether a meeting took...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have stayed within my own-----

Other Questions: Arts Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The justification for handing this funding to Creative Ireland is "to accelerate its programme". Is there an effort on the part of Creative Ireland to eclipse the Arts Council? The Arts Council's own ten-year strategy, Making Great Art Work, was published, strangely enough, without any reference whatsoever to the Department's own ten-year cultural policy, Culture 2025, which is supposed to...

Other Questions: Arts Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 48. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if she is satisfied that the budget 2018 decision to increase the Arts Council's funding by less than 5% is consistent with the goal to double investment in the arts sector over the next seven years; the way in which she plans to meet this funding goal between 2017 and 2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47762/17]

Other Questions: Arts Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: My question is very similar to that of Deputy Niamh Smyth and relates to the same issue. There seems to be some confusion. The amount of money allocated to the arts in Ireland is way below the European norm. The Taoiseach has promised a lot more but we are playing catch-up and it seems that is going to continue. Given that the arts is so important to the Irish people, more should be done....

Other Questions: Arts Funding (14 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: There are concerns about how the money is being used. What is the Minister's response to Emmet Kirwan, the brilliant playwright, who said that Creative Ireland's so-called fifth pillar "appears to be that artists should get on message and it commodifies the arts and co-opts artists to put forward an idealised version to the world of what Ireland is like, which is a branding exercise; but...

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I think I have 12 minutes.

Heritage Bill 2016 [Seanad]: Second Stage (Resumed) (9 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will probably take it all. In many ways it is strange to call this Bill a Heritage Bill. It seems to me to facilitate the eradication and destruction of certain elements of Irish heritage. There are a number of parts to the Bill, including provisions on canals and the burning of vegetation on uncultivated land, as well as changes to the laws protecting National Parks and Wildlife...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will address the amendments in the group which deal with apologies and the provision that an apology shall not constitute an admission of liability. This is a crucial issue. As noted in the discussion on the second group of amendments, apologies are one of the most important aspects of any open disclosure process. The Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care reviewed...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 19:In page 21, line 27, to delete "placed the patient at risk of unintended or unanticipated injury or" and substitute "the patient was placed at risk of".

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I wish to follow up on the comments of Deputy Catherine Connolly. I am a great believer in trusting everyone until they prove unworthy of it. I raised yesterday with the Taoiseach the case of a woman called Jane Johnstone, who was having an horrendous time with the HSE in Wexford owing to her having had the audacity to stand up for herself and her two autistic children. I wish it were...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 16:In page 21, line 23, after “an” to insert “unintended or unanticipated”.

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 17:In page 21, line 25, to delete “injury or”.

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: We changed it so it would be in line with the English model.

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 7:In page 20, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:" "less serious harm" means harm which does not meet the criteria for moderate harm, major harm or prolonged psychological harm;".

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 8:In page 20, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:" "major harm" means a permanent lessening of bodily, sensory, motor, physiological or intellectual functions, including removal of the wrong limb or organ, that is related directly to a safety incident and not related to the natural course of the patient’s illness or underlying condition;".

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 9:In page 20, between lines 13 and 14, to insert the following:" "moderate harm" means— (a) harm that requires a moderate increase in treatment, and (b) significant, but not permanent, harm;".