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Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Yes.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I hope Deputy Howlin will not miss me in Wexford if I am lucky enough to get elected to Europe.

Post-European Council Meetings: Statements (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: It will not be the same without me. There are many challenges facing Europe, many of which are connected. Two of those are the manner in which so many aspects of terrorism are carried out and global warming. There are many terrible things happening in the world in pursuit of oil. One does not need to be a rocket scientist to work out that the trouble in the Middle East has, from the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Transactions (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: Some €352 million was owed on the Avestus assets and it got them back through a shell company based in Luxembourg for €26 million. How can the Minister stand over this? On a different issue, the Minister might be aware of a recent case in the United States involving a NAMA debtor versus NAMA and the National Asset Loan Management, NALM, it was argued by NAMA that NALM was a...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Transactions (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Finance if he has had discussions with NAMA officials or his officials with regard to the UN special rapporteur letter on Ireland which stated that 93% of NAMA assets have been sold to foreign investors; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17801/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Transactions (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The question relates to the UN special rapporteur's letter on Ireland which states that 93% of NAMA assets have been sold to foreign investors. I am not sure where the UN rapporteur got his figures but I would expect NAMA to know exactly how much it has sold and to whom. It appears that this is not the case. In a press release last week, NAMA stated that 69% of its asset sales went to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: NAMA Transactions (17 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: There is a play on language here. Of the €74 billion that went into NAMA, what percentage ended up with foreign entities? The Committee of Public Accounts report into Project Eagle from 2016 showed that NAMA had sold 20% of its entire debt of €74 billion to one company, Cerberus. This works out at €14.5 billion, whether one calls it loans or assets. This included...

General Practitioner Contractual Reform: Statements (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The current GP contract is 47 years old. There have been no major structural changes to it in that time, bar a little tinkering. General practice in Ireland receives 3% of the overall health budget and yet general practice in most developed countries receives 10%. This disparity needs to be addressed in Ireland. Research has repeatedly shown that if one spends €1 on investment...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I know the Tánaiste could not make the meeting in question. I wonder how he feels about the position taken by France. France has been supporting General Haftar. French weapons helped him take over Benghazi in 2017. The Tánaiste stated that the people of Libya have suffered terribly. That is the case but he should add that this suffering is directly linked to the NATO bombing of...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Foreign Conflicts (16 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if he will report on the most recent discussions at the Foreign Affairs Council meeting on 8 April 2019 on recent developments in Libya; the stance taken by representatives of Ireland at those meetings; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17603/19]

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: They have changed the measurement.

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I will give the Minister of State the evidence of that.

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: That is a tricky question. I was pretty good at it until the banking crisis burst the living daylights out of me.

A Better World: Ireland's Policy for International Development: Statements (11 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I will not criticise the provision of aid, as I have seen genuinely good efforts being made to make things better on the ground, but I will be critical in dealing with the bigger picture. I started to read Jason Hickel’s book, The Divide, for the second time last weekend. It is such an amazing read. Everybody should read it if he or she wants to know how this world is operating. I...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I do not accept that PwC is in a position to say that this should not be revisited, and I do not see the evidence for that in its report. It has not given us the evidence and has not done the necessary work. It was not the correct organisation to review this. It addressed the peer review issue by saying: "An external perspective, frequently in the form of a peer review, is often needed to...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste says the PwC report gives us a clear explanation of what happened here. I do not agree. The children's hospital problems are about construction contracts, cost management, cost measurement and general construction. I am wondering why the Government gave a crowd of accountants, who know nothing about construction, the job of reviewing it. Why did it not engage a...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste is calling this a special project but it is not actually a very special project. It is a construction project; it is not unique. Hospitals get built every year across Europe. It does not justify an extra €450 million. The report states that the board should be less reliant on external advisers. If the Government is going to hire consultants and pay them, maybe it...

An Bille um an Ochtú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Neodracht) 2018 : An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-Eighth Amendment of the Constitution (Neutrality) Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: We will also be supporting the Sinn Féin Bill. This is a bit mad. The abuse of language in making arguments about this issue is a somewhat disheartening. We know there is no concrete and clear commitment to neutrality in the Constitution. This has been taken advantage of by too many for too long. Our facilitation of the US military's use of Shannon Airport for the Iraq War in 2003...

EU Regulations: Referral to Joint Committee (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: There is a Big Brother aspect to this operation and there does not seem to have been much debate about fundamental rights, proportionality or the safeguarding of data. I have a number of questions for the Minister of State. I do not know if I will get answers to them today, but perhaps I will get them at another time. In April 2018 the European Commission's data protection working...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Private Rented Accommodation (9 Apr 2019)

Mick Wallace: I have lost count of the number of initiatives on housing that have been brought in since we were elected to the House. One thing has not changed: housing remains unaffordable. The Government is not tackling the fact the supply of housing in this country is dysfunctional. It is double the price of mainland Europe for a three bedroom house within 30 km of the capital city. That is the...

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