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Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: 8 o’clock I move amendment No. 5:In page 14, to delete lines 14 and 15 and substitute the following:"(I) as one non-mandatory means to verify the identity of a person, where the first or second mentioned public body is providing or proposes to provide a service to that person, without prejudice to a person’s right to verify their identity other than by the presentation of a...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: We do not think our amendments would have that effect on the Bill. The Minister said that the Government was not prescribing what an individual service provider must or must not use, that it is not the intent of the Bill and is a matter for each individual service provider to determine. He also said that it is also up to each individual service provider to seek legislation, if required, to...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State said on Committee Stage that he could not accept our amendments. Obviously, he is trying to reverse the amendments we secured at the time relating to the public services card and the public service identity data set. The Minister of State said the measures would be in direct conflict with existing legislation. He referred to the Social Welfare Consolidation Act. This...

Data Sharing and Governance Bill 2018 [Seanad]: Report Stage (18 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: We do not have a problem with the amendments either. I thank the officials for their co-operation with our staff.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Bill seeks to provide that An Bord Pleanála will be the appeal body in respect of aircraft noise regulation. Under the legislation, an appeal against a relevant regulatory decision may be lodged together with the appropriate fee before the board at any time before the expiration of the appropriate period by the airport authority or a relevant person. This appears to be a...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will go to great lengths not to name him.

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: According to a press statement released by the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy, yesterday, he has appointed an individual who the Ceann Comhairle does not want me to name and who has extensive experience in planning to the board of An Bord Pleanála. The press release stated that the individual was employed by a private company. That is...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Ceann Comhairle. I have expressed my concern. This is an area in respect of which the Government should be more careful. I am not casting aspersions on the individual involved. I am stating that when we make appointments, we must take on board the need to avoid conflicts of interest. When the Taoiseach announced the Land Development Agency, I expressed serious concerns of a...

Aircraft Noise (Dublin Airport) Regulation Bill 2018: Second Stage (Resumed) (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I accept that. I am throwing no stones at the Minister. I have taken the opportunity to highlight my worry and disappointment at how the Government is going about its business in dealing with the housing crisis. It happened to be connected to this because of the involvement of An Bord Pleanála. I thank the Ceann Comhairle and Minister for their forbearance.

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the findings of a report by the European Migration Network, published by the Economic and Social Research Institute, ESRI, which found that only a small proportion of minors have secured an immigration status and that this was due to delays making applications on behalf of minors by social workers in Tusla; and if she will...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The question relates to the findings of a report by the European Migration Network, published by the ESRI, which found that only a small proportion of minors have secured an immigration status and that this was due to delays by Tusla social workers in making the minors' applications. Does the Minister have concerns about this, and has she spoken to Tusla since the report's publication?

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: We know there is some good care for the kids under 18 years of age. So far this year, however, 105 children have arrived in Ireland seeking asylum status without a parent or guardian, yet to date this year only 15 have been granted international protection, while last year only 11 children were granted protection. These are low figures. I remind the Minister of some of the contents of the...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh – Priority Questions: Unaccompanied Minors and Separated Children (13 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: We know the children cannot get their status before the age of 18. Family reunification is gone; they are generally going into direct provision. We are not saying that everything about the system is wrong, but there are serious problems with it. We know a number of young lads who are waiting for interviews. More resources are probably required. We know there are some good things...

Anti-Evictions Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (12 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I have listened to the debate and do not accept many of the arguments put forward by the two Government parties. I welcome the Bill from Solidarity_PBP and agree with enhancing the rights of tenants. Currently, if a tenant is in situin a property for six months or longer, they automatically receive security of tenure for six years in what is known as a Part 4 tenancy. This Bill seeks to...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: Last Thursday we discussed legislation introduced by Senator Colette Kelleher on family reunification for refugees. Before we could even start debating it, we were told the Government would not provide a money message for it. I am concerned that the Government would take such an approach. Migration is on the agenda for this week's European Council meeting. The background notes strike a...

Pre-European Council Meeting: Statements (12 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: Ladies first. One of the few ladies in the whole place.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Suicide Prevention (11 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I do not wish to personalise this or to blame any one Minister for the problem. I had a pint with Kenneth Rowe a few weeks before he died. He is gone and he need not be. I note the services mentioned by the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath. The people of Wexford are of the view that there are not adequate services available to them. Young people are dying because the help they...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Suicide Prevention (11 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for choosing this very serious issue. I want to read a statement from Olwen Rowe from Wexford, the sister of Kenneth Rowe, who took his own life. Kenneth was a good friend to two of my sons. The statement reads:Families and friends live many nightmares when a loved one dies by suicide. When there is no warning, the shock and the pain are immense, beyond words....

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Suicide Prevention (11 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will just finish. It continues:In the middle of our grieving and the unspeakable pain, it is hard not to feel anger and rage about a health system that is inadequate, underfunded and criminally absent in some parts of this country. It feels like no one, who can actually make a difference, cares.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Suicide Prevention (11 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: It continues:Kenneth gave so generously of his time and resources that he always gave the impression of having plenty, even when he was struggling to make ends meet. He has left little by way of material goods, but his legacy is immense - the many acts of kindness he wove into the fabric of his life, his unremitting intolerance for bullshit-----