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Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Spent Convictions Legislation (24 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: 451. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality when she expects to have legislation before Dáil Éireann to provide for cautions and convictions for lesser crimes to be deemed to be spent; if she does not have such plans, the reason there is no such provision envisaged and the reason Ireland will not be introducing such legislation, which is the norm in the vast majority of...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: Last year most rational people in Ireland realised that Irish Water was a disaster. That has not changed. Yesterday the Taoiseach stated to the House that having high quality water and sewerage schemes requires investment on a major scale and cannot be done under the discredited system we have had for the last 40 years. If this Government is so concerned about how sewerage is managed or...

Water Charges: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: I am sorry, but it is hard to keep a cool head sometimes. One of the Deputies on the Government side said that rural Deputies did not sign this motion. I am from Wexford and I did. We do not have good drinking water in Wexford and there is significant raw sewage going into our rivers and the sea and we are not happy about that. The situation has not improved in the slightest in the past...

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Sector Staff Remuneration (25 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has conducted an analysis of levels of low pay in the public service; his plans to address same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11690/15]

Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Procurement Contracts (25 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: 20. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform the progress made in improving access to State contracts for Irish firms; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11689/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (26 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: 17. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation the business sectors which have lobbied the Government in relation to the transatlantic trade and investment partnership talks; the percentage that were supportive; the sectors that opposed specific proposals and the sectors in total opposition; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12047/15]

Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Trade Agreements (26 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: 26. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation his views on the EU's regulatory co-operation provisions in the transatlantic trade and investment partnership talks; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12046/15]

High Pay and Wealth Commission Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: We should have the division now.

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: Tairgim: "Go léifear an Bille an Dara hUair anois." I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I wish to begin by thanking Dr. Ed Horgan and Mr. John Lannon of Shannonwatch, who have been involved in a long-running campaign to have neutrality enshrined in the Constitution and to have Ireland promote peace rather than facilitate a war effort. The amount of time they have...

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: That is fine. I will say instead that the then Taoiseach was being economical with the truth. So, he engaged in fear-mongering, provided misinformation and was economical with the truth. The statements to which I refer were untrue because at base they rode roughshod over a series of very straightforward laws by which Ireland is bound. According to customary international law - namely, the...

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: Could I have an hour?

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister of State for his reply. The Government does not wish to put any form of neutrality legislation into the Constitution.

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: I did not interfere with the Minister of State's contribution.

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State has been rubbishing the Hague Convention-----

An Bille um an gCearthrú Leasú is Tríocha ar an mBunreacht (Síocháin agus Neodracht) 2014: An Dara Céim [Comhaltaí Príobháideacha] - Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Peace and Neutrality) Bill 2014: Second Stage [Private Members] (27 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: -----on the basis that no one has signed up to it for 50 years, but what he forgets is that the Hague Convention is part of customary international law on neutrality. It has been updated by other measures such as the UN charter, but even Judge Kearns accepted the fact in 2003 that the Hague Convention was still a key element of international law on neutrality. He also accepted that we were...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: On 28 January, I asked the Taoiseach to tell the House when he was first personally made aware of serious Garda malpractice in the Athlone area. Given that his memory is normally pretty good, I was surprised that he failed to recall it. In 2012, a garda went to see the Taoiseach in Castlebar and told him about serious malpractice by a certain superintendent in the Athlone area. He told...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: Exactly.

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: That is a load of rubbish, and the Taoiseach knows it. He did not address the issues I raised. I never said the Taoiseach promoted him. I said he approved of it. Why would he approve the promotion of a superintendent to chief superintendent after being made aware of the fact that he was involved in serious Garda malpractice? Why in God's name would he do it? Will the Taoiseach explain...

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Garda authority was supposed to be up and running by December and God knows when we will get a watered down version of it. The report of the Garda Inspectorate was not even debated in the House. The latest-----

Leaders' Questions (31 Mar 2015)

Mick Wallace: -----report on the penalty points was not debated in the House. The Taoiseach talks about things changing, but I have details of one Fine Gael backbencher who has three fixed charges against him.