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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I have two questions for the Tánaiste.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: This is a war of resistance by the people of Yemen against the pillage of their country by global financial capitalism. Mr. Saleh was implementing neoliberal policies and the people were resisting them. He was thrown out and replaced by Mr. Hadi, who, when he ran out of rope, ran away. The war started in 2015. There is zero justification for the Saudi UAE bombing of Yemen, with the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste said that Ireland cannot go out on a limb on its own and that it is tied to the EU. European countries sometimes take a separate stand. For example, prior to the latest slow walk to a coup in Venezuela, the Spanish Minister was backing Mr. Maduro and giving him a chance to work things out. In the past few days, the French and the Germans declared that if there are no...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: 49. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he has had communications with his counterparts in the European countries that continue to sell arms and provide support to the coalition that is bombing Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4119/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (29 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: 75. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he is satisfied with the role the UN has played in terms of ending the war in Yemen; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4120/19]

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Funding (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: We hope that the Government sees sense and comes up with a rational approach to this matter. According to the Central Statistics Office, there were 3,809 deaf people or persons with a serious hearing impairment living in County Wexford in 2016. Members of the deaf community in Wexford have had zero access to services following the closure of Chime and the Wexford deaf club. The current...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Funding (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I just knew. I was asked to wear it by the Irish ambassador to Malawi, Gerald Cunningham. I wear it today in solidarity with the people of Malawi but also in solidarity with a most special group, namely, the Irish Deaf Society. I ask the Minister of State to get the Government to do the right thing.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services Funding (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: The issue of funding does not lie with one Minister. A cross-departmental strategy is needed. It was always going to be needed if we were realistically to implement the provisions of the legislation passed by the House on Irish Sign Language 13 months ago. We cannot realistically do that without the input of the organisation that has played a central role in providing support for deaf...

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: That is because most of the land is owned by only a few people.

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am probably not the most parliamentary Member. Perhaps I am not really suited to the place at all.

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: Yes, rumour has it.

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I did not withdraw it.

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: Do not misquote me.

Directly Elected Mayors: Statements (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the opportunity to speak about the issue of directly elected mayors. A groupthink opinion has developed and it appears that the majority of Opposition parties and Deputies in the House, from Fianna Fáil to the Green Party and all parties in between, support the idea without being able to offer any meaningful explanation of how the role will actually work. On what we can all...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State is admitting that by buying fracked gas from America, we are going to a dirtier fuel now. There has been a myth about gas as well. I have looked at the Minister's responses over recent months. It has been said that we are following EU guidelines. As far as we are concerned, the unelected EU Commission is in the hands of the fossil fuel industry. The carbon dioxide...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I do not know.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: I have my reservations.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: Deputy Mattie McGrath is one of the better ones.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: 6. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his views on the growing trend of US multinational involvement in the gas industry across Europe; if he or his Department has had input into the proposed gas terminal on the Shannon Estuary backed by a fund (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3404/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Natural Gas Imports (24 Jan 2019)

Mick Wallace: There are currently 14 liquid natural gas terminals in the planning or building stages around the EU. They are mainly the result of a deal struck between Trump and Juncker last year, with Trump commenting afterwards that the EU was going to be a very big buyer of US liquid gas. The terminal being built on the Shannon will lock us into future fossil fuel use when our future energy policy...