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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ports Facilities (12 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I know there is €25 million going into Rosslare. However, there are plans for the Government to invest €587 million in infrastructure for Dublin, Cork and Shannon ports. Compared with that, €25 million is a drop in the ocean. Dublin Port Company plans to invest €1 billion over the next ten years. In 2018 alone, €132 million was invested in Dublin Port....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ports Facilities (12 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Will the Minister agree that it would be better long-term planning to invest more in Rosslare?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ports Facilities (12 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 60. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the actions he has taken to address the ownership issue at Rosslare Europort; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6716/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ports Facilities (12 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 77. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport his views on the ten-year strategic plan for Rosslare Europort of Irish Rail; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6715/19]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Ports Facilities (12 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: For more than three years now - since prior to the Brexit referendum - I have argued that this Government and that which preceded it needed to invest and to address the issues faced at Rosslare Europort, not least the problem that it is run by a rail company and is partly owned by the British. Every time I question the ownership of the port I am given the same line about the complicated...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Minister, Deputy Harris, referred to the Public Service Pay Commission position. Is it not true that the Minister for Finance, Deputy Donohoe, met the commission on 26 October and instructed it to the effect that this was not and could not be a pay review? Will the Ministers accept at this stage that this problem will not be sorted without paying the nurses more money?

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: A couple of years ago in Dublin, four builders were asked to price a job. The tenders had to be submitted by 5 p.m. on a Friday. A week beforehand, one of the builders rang the other three and proposed a meeting. They were aware of the identities of the other tenderers. At the meeting, a deal was proposed whereby they would meet five hours before the tenders were due to be submitted and...

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: -----the extras that will accumulate are multiples of those which would accumulate if the hospital was developed at Connolly. The site at St. James's is a nightmare to build on.

Nurses and Midwives Industrial Action: Statements (7 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The Ministers have a big problem and I am sure it is not easy to fix. They are caught between a rock and a hard place. In terms of the reason for that, there has been a rise in inequality in most of the developed world in recent years and the problem has grown. They will not solve the nurses' recruitment and retention issue. Unless they pay them better, it will remain a problem. It will...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I am sorry that the Tánaiste eventually gave in to pressure from the Americans, but we will see how it develops. In 2015 the former American President, Barack Obama, introduced sanctions against the Maduro Government. They were designed to make the people suffer by depriving them of food and medicine, as well as the Venezuelan Government of money to run the country. It is an ongoing...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Did they learn anything from supporting the intervention in Libya?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Did they learn anything from the regime change effort in Syria or the demolition they supported in Afghanistan?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: They allowed Shannon Airport to be used in destroying hundreds of thousands of lives in Afghanistan. Will Fianna Fáil ever learn anything? Is it any wonder the Taoiseach is not afraid of that party?

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Foreign Policy (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: I should address some of the points that Deputy Niall Collins raised. Elections in Venezuela are normally held in December but in December 2017 and January 2018 there were talks between the government and the opposition in Venezuela. The opposition insisted on the election being held in early summer and the government caved in and agreed. The opposition was warned by the Americans that it...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: The evidence coming my way is different. Forest management in Ireland is in crisis and we are creating another environmental disaster by doing what is immediately, financially and politically expedient rather than what is good for the people of our country, the Irish environment and the future of the planet. We have the second-lowest tree cover in the EU after Malta, which means we need to...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We are probably reading different research. The Minister of State should send his to me and I will send mine to him. John Murray of the Murray Timber Group has gone on record to say:Sitka spruce, while there seems to be an awful lot of talk about monoculture, is the equivalent of a Friesian cow - that's what it does for the industry. The nearest performer, as a native Irish cow, produces...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Are those species native to that region?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: Are we planting Douglas fir?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: 10. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of managed forest that is planted with sitka spruce; the timeline during which the trees are allowed to grow before they are felled; the end use for the trees in terms of percentage for timber, biomass and so on; the pesticides, insecticides and fungicides used on Sitka spruce; the average use of each per square metre...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Forestry Data (6 Feb 2019)

Mick Wallace: We spoke earlier about the beef and dairy sectors and the many indirect forms of emissions, pollution and damage to the environment they may cause. The carbon sequestration through afforestation programme, which has expanded alongside the expansion of the dairy herd in an ill-thought-out attempt to promote another short-term cash crop, is supposed to help dig us out of our emissions problem....