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Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is only going along for the sandwiches. He will have no say.

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: That is a joke. How can the Minister say that with a straight face?

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: It bombs the living daylights out of other countries.

Regulation establishing Internal Security Fund: Motion (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Minister told the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality yesterday that Ireland's participation in the current ISF, which started in 2014 and will run until 2020, "has enabled high-volume investments, especially in IT systems, from which Ireland has benefitted". He also said "An Garda Síochána acts as both the responsible authority and the audit authority" for the expenditure...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 11. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government when he expects legislation to be introduced on the Land Development Agency, LDA; the number of staff the agency currently employs; if the position of CEO of the agency was advertised; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39097/18]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: When does the Minister expect legislation relating to the Land Development Agency to be brought before the House? How many staff does the agency currently employ? Was the position of CEO of the agency advertised? The Minister stated that the LDA will enable the Government to address traditional volatility in land prices as a result of speculation. I ask him to outline how that will be...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister for his reply. As he is aware, I believe that the LDA will hand control of the supply of housing to a few elite entities, such as developers and investors, rather than it being under the control of the Government or builders. That is not the right way to move forward. I am mystified as to how it was decided to appoint a former NAMA chief financial officer as CEO of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Land Development Agency (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: Land site cost per unit is currently increasing by approximately 25% per annum. Even if the 7% vacant site levy put forward by the Minister applied to all developers sitting on landbanks, it would not bother them. However, because of all the exemptions it contains, very few developers will have to pay it. The Government stated that the LDA is based on best practice in European countries...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Social and Affordable Housing Funding (27 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: No, I have the next question. Just do not take all day.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Data (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: 60. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her views on the decline in the unemployment rate in the south-east region between the first quarter in 2017 and the first quarter in 2018; the amount of the reduction that can be attributed to job creation; the amount of the reduction that can be accounted for by persons leaving the region’s labour force through...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Data (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The unemployment rate in the south east between the first quarter of 2017 and the first quarter of 2018 fell from 7.7% to 7.2%. I would like to know how much of that reduction is down to job creation and how much is down to individuals leaving the region's labour force through factors such as migration or retirement. Does the Minister know if the number of people who are working in the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Data (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister. There are always issues about figures in here, such as those we heard about housing in the last while. Is the Minister aware of the South East Economic Monitor? I do not know if the Minister reads it but the latest edition was published a couple of months ago. This publication provides an analysis of the regional economy carried out by independent non-politically...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Employment Data (26 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: While the south east makes up 9% of the population of the State, only 3% of IDA Ireland jobs that were created over the last seven years have been in the south-east region. Only 2.2% of the Ireland 2040 capital investment in higher education is due to be spent in the south east. I am aware that Wexford is different again; the live register figure for Wexford in July was 15.5%. Wexford is...

Confidence in the Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government: Motion [Private Members] (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: Two weeks ago, Mr. Niall Cussen, from the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, said at the Dublin economics workshop that the State will not be building social housing at scale because it has failed in the past. The Minister has not said that in the House. I do not know what people are saying to each other, but there is a serious lack of honesty in how this crisis is being...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Response Times (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: While the new cath lab that is to be built in Waterford is welcome, it will not make any difference in terms of helping emergency cardiac patients outside Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The meeting with the Minister last week was a decent one. He explained to us that he has been trying to get extra hours from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. or 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. That would help but it still leaves...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Ambulance Service Response Times (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: It is an issue that is a real worry for the people where I come from in the south of Wexford because we are in the absolute worst position of all when it comes to the problems around this issue. A few months ago, I submitted a number of questions to the Department of Health on ambulance response times between various hospitals in the south east and St. James's Hospital in Dublin and Cork...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: I do not know who give the Taoiseach his figures. I am not saying it is his fault but there is so much spin in there that it is not funny. The housing supply co-ordination task force, which checks out completions in the four Dublin local authorities for ten units or more, gave a total number of 1,095 for the first two quarters of 2017. For the first two quarters of 2018 the number is 397....

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Government is buying and acquiring houses and even over half of the Part V's were not built. They were purchased. The Government is massaging the figures no end. When the Government buys something that does nothing for the housing supply. Even if it is used for HAP, the Government is eating into the private sector of it. I ask the Taoiseach please to listen. It is hard for him to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: The Government needs to change tack.

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (25 Sep 2018)

Mick Wallace: It looks like spin rather than substance remains the order of the day when it comes to the Government's housing policy. I have built plenty of apartments and houses and it does not take seven and a half years to build them.