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

Mick Wallace: It continues:his courage to stand up for the people he loved, for people who needed support during difficult times, his honourable commitment to doing his work well. It concludes:Would that we had a future with him. He didn’t want to die.

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: Operation Sophia is saving nobody.

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: Germany.

International Protection (Family Reunification) (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: It is disappointing to hear the Government position on this. I do not necessarily take it as being 100% the Minister of State's position on it. He engaged well with this issue but I am sorry to say that for as long as I have been here, his Government's approach has left too much to be desired. It was at the height of the refugee crisis and in spite of the concerns raised by human rights...

Climate Change: Statements (6 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: It is clear from the most recent EPA figures that there has almost been zero movement on the issue of climate action in Ireland and that the policies being lauded as achieving progress are actually making things worse. Contrary to the views of the chief scientific adviser, business as usual cannot continue if we want to tackle global warming. There is no technological fix. Endless and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister would do him a favour by publishing his report. Not publishing it is not doing him any favours. The Minister's report does not outline any of the investigative failures or shortcomings that Judge Aylmer identified. I can tell the Minister that 15 pages of his report after he threw out the case are far more informative - 20 times more informative - than her account. The...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: Mary Ellen Ring threw out the case in 2015.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Ceann Comhairle for selecting this issue for debate. Two weeks ago during Leaders' Questions I raised with the Taoiseach the ODCE report on the mishandling of the investigation into the chairman of Anglo Irish Bank, Mr. Seán FitzPatrick, and his annual warehousing of personal loans from the bank. I said I had seen the ODCE report and that it was a whitewash. I wish to...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The way the Government has dealt with the issue raises many questions. One of the key areas on which the Taoiseach focused during his leadership battle with the Tánaiste, Deputy Coveney, was white collar crime. He said he would make it a priority, but he has done nothing about it since.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: If it is a priority, why will the Government not publish the ODCE report? It makes no sense. There are many unanswered questions about the FitzPatrick trial, the ODCE's handling of it, the Garda's involvement and the decision to pursue a second trial. I may be cynical, but it seems that this suits the Government because it wants the issue to go away and is happy to hide behind the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister's report does not give us the answers for which we are looking.

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Office of the Director of Corporate Enforcement Reports (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is defending the director, but I am not attacking him. I had a meeting with him last Friday. I do not know how often the Minister has met him. I had a meeting with him last Friday and I found him to be an impressive individual.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Job Creation (4 Dec 2018)

Mick Wallace: That is not true in Wexford. Unemployment is over 15% there.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (Resumed) (28 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will make effectively the same points. We also support amendment No. 31. It was tabled at Committee Stage but was not successful. The World Health Organization, WHO, has said that waiting periods like this demean women as decision makers, and we ought to keep that in mind. Waiting periods will only lead to delays in accessing treatment. The UN committee on the elimination of...

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: If we were to accept the amendment, it would be to ignore the voice of the Irish people who have already voted otherwise. They voted overwhelmingly that a woman has a right to have an abortion up to 12 weeks without reason and after that for specific reasons. The State will not save lives by refusing to fund healthcare for women in Ireland.

Health (Regulation of Termination of Pregnancy) Bill 2018: Report Stage (27 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I will be brief. Repetition could become a problem as we discuss these matters. Amendment No. 1 seeks to make clear that the Bill is primarily about access to healthcare, not criminalisation. Earlier today, Alison Spillane of the Irish Family Planning Association stated that parliamentarians must take the criminal law out of medical consulting rooms and replace it with a provision...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: 11. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on the details surrounding a loan sale (details supplied) which was sold off market and for less than 10% of its original value; if he is satisfied that NAMA is not in breach of section 2(iv) of the NAMA Act 2009, which requires it to protect the interests of the taxpayer; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48606/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I raised the issue of the Project Nantes loan sale in this House in May 2017 with the then Minister, Deputy Noonan. He told me that NAMA could not reveal any information on this loan sale under sections 99 and 202 of the NAMA Act. The current Minister refused to answer twice, on the same grounds, but sections 99 and 202 do not apply to the Houses of the Oireachtas, yet the Minister has...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: I have great respect for the work of the Comptroller and Auditor General, as I do for the Minister, but I still believe the Minister should get involved. Avestus took over Quinlan Private in 2010. The three principal directors, Olan Cremin, Thomas Dowd and Peter Donnelly, had borrowed heavily during the boom, mainly from Anglo Irish Bank, and owed €489 million when the crash came....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Loans Sale (22 Nov 2018)

Mick Wallace: There is no doubt that the Comptroller and Auditor General is a serious operator and he is a credit to his office, but he has found it very difficult to get information out of NAMA. It was very obvious during the protracted Project Eagle case that NAMA was very reluctant to co-operate with the Comptroller and Auditor General in a fair manner. NAMA is deliberately downplaying the requirement...