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Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: People have died because they were not admitted to hospital; people have committed suicide in Wexford. The Minister of State has said that Wexford and Waterford are well served, but, according to the HSE's mental health division plan for 2015, spending per capita in the mental health area in the region is €148. That compares to €223 in Carlow-Kilkenny, €198 in south...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: It has one of the highest levels of teenage pregnancy and one of the highest levels of illiteracy. The service is not good enough. I am serious about this.

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (28 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: That is the knock-on effect.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (28 May 2015)

Mick Wallace: 38. To ask the Minister for Health if he is satisfied that the current mental health provision in County Wexford is adequate, particularly in view of the county's relatively high suicide rates which according to the last census were almost twice the national rate; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20548/15]

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 113. To ask the Minister for Defence if the Irish Defence Forces plan to take any role in the European Union Naval Force Operation in the Mediterranean, which received the approval of the European Union Foreign Affairs Council on Defence on 18 May 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21375/15]

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: On 18 May, the EU Foreign Affairs Council on Defence agreed to establish what the Council refers to as an EU military operation to break the business of smugglers and traffickers of people in the Mediterranean. We know the LE Eithnehas been dispatched to assist with the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean and has done some good work. Can the Minister confirm that this vessel or any other...

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: It is a bit worrying that the Minister has not answered either of my questions. Does he not think that we should play a neutral role and advocate for non-military action in the area? The idea that military action could in any way help things is ridiculous. The EU was formed on the foundations built up after the Second World War and on the idea that inhumanity should not be tolerated....

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: I did not say that.

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We argued here a few months back about how mad it was to stop the Mare Nostrum operation. Did the Irish Government object to the stopping of Mare Nostrum? The argument against it was that it was encouraging migrants by rescuing them, but in actual fact, when we stopped saving them, they drowned. Up to 1,800 people have drowned already this year. It is great that Ireland has paid played a...

Other Questions: Naval Service Operations (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Absolutely not.

Draft Commission of Investigation (Certain matters concerning transactions entered into by IBRC) Order 2015: Motion (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We are discussing the terms of reference of an inquiry into the State's alleged preferential treatment of the private sector, in particular deals that may have cost the Irish taxpayer substantial sums of money. It is a bit like the US military holding an investigation into the causes of violence in the Middle East. The Government is unashamedly neoliberal, as was the one before it. It is...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Naval Service Vessels (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 121. To ask the Minister for Defence the role of the LE Eithne in the European Union response to the migrant crisis in the Mediterranean; if he will guarantee that it, or any other Irish vessel, will not become involved in any European Union military operations in the Mediterranean, regardless of whether a United Nations Security Council mandate is secured in this regard; and if he will make...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Staff (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 437. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the role and scope of the welfare officer on the Irish Greyhound Board; if the holder of that role has any mandate as regards alleged breaches on the part of the Irish Coursing Club; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21418/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 462. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any of the greyhounds that raced in the 2015 Con and Annie Kirby Memorial Stake in County Limerick tested positive for banned substances; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21959/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 463. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if any bitches tested positive for banned substances in the 2013 Oaks and the 2013 Saint Leger finals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21960/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 464. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Chairman of the Irish Greyhound Board has met with the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine, as promised in November 2013; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21962/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 465. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he is satisfied that the Irish Greyhound Board and the Irish Coursing Club have enforced the Artificial Insemination of Greyhounds Regulations 2005 since their introduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21963/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Remit (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 466. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason three investigators into an incident at Dundalk Greyhound Stadium, County Louth, initiated by the Irish Greyhound Board, did not finish their investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21964/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon Administration (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 467. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if the Irish Greyhound Board plans to sell the greyhound stadium at Harold's Cross in Dublin 6W, prior to a change in zoning for the site; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21965/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Bord na gCon (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 468. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will provide details of the pension deficit in the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21966/15]