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

Mick Wallace: 469. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will confirm that all private tracks funded by the Irish Greyhound Board are compliant in paying entry fees to the Irish Greyhound Board; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21967/15]

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

Mick Wallace: 470. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on reports that greyhounds which tested positive for procaine had their positive tests annulled under a threshold that was introduced after they had been found positive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21968/15]

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

Mick Wallace: 473. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the total number of fines handed out by the Control Committee of the Irish Greyhound Board for the various breaches, since March 2011; the amounts of the fines incurred; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21987/15]

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

Mick Wallace: 487. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 87 of 27 May 2015, if he will indicate the number of the 128 samples sent for drugs testing to the Laboratory of Government Chemists in the United Kingdom since January 2015 that tested positive for banned substances; if he will provide details of the substances identified in these samples; and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Consultants Recruitment (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 784. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 139 of 19 November 2014, if he will provide a progress update on the recruitment for a consultant dermatologist in University Hospital Waterford; if any of the three such posts there have been permanently filled; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21954/15]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Staff Recruitment (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 789. To ask the Minister for Health if there is a respiratory nurse currently working in Wexford General Hospital with asthma patients; if not, his plans to recruit one in the near future; if he will provide details of the services available in Wexford General Hospital for asthma patients; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21992/15]

Written Answers — Department of Environment, Community and Local Government: Homelessness Strategy (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 1073. To ask the Minister for Environment, Community and Local Government the actions his Department is taking in response to recent reports by ALONE, that one older person became homeless every three days in March 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17281/15]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: National Postcode System Expenditure (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: 1117. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the contracts his Department has with Capita Ireland; the amounts of money involved in any such contracts; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21791/15]

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Are we within our right to resubmit the amendment?

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We will press it.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: Although the Chairman stated Standing Order 156(3) does not allow for the imposition of any undue expense on the Exchequer, surely we should be allowed to debate these amendments in the Chamber. Rather than ruling them out of order, would it not be in the interest of transparency for us to discuss whether there may be a future cost to the Exchequer, or whether the amendments would save the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister's committee recommended that the legislation include the principle of climate justice. It does not and we think it should.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: If we were to take the bold step and legislate for this, it would really be a signal of our intent to take these matters seriously. At present, 50,000 Bangladeshis have to leave the coast every month and head to the cities because they are being swamped and cannot make a living any more. This is just one simple example. Sadly, I do not believe people have really woken up yet to the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: On the same theme, detail on the setting of annual targets in order to achieve the interim target by 2050 is completely missing from the Bill. There are no time-frames or criteria provided for. Amendment No. 11 outlines the criteria that the relevant advisory body should take into account when giving advice to the Minister in advance of setting annual emission targets. It also details the...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said that given that amendment No. 9 was ruled out of order, it undermined amendments Nos. 10 and 11. We do not agree with amendment No. 9 being ruled out of order. The Minister has made the point that we need to be careful that we are not transgressing EU rulings. I understand we still have a Parliament in Dublin and that we can make decisions here. We should be trying to be...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: We still retain the right to bring it back on Report Stage.

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: I do not believe many people actively involved in climate change would agree with the Minister's statement that this Bill will be a game changer. Most of the people who have been campaigning in this area would see this Bill as a massive damp squib and disappointment rather than a game changer. The Minister made the point earlier that there is no point in us doing something that is...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: I wish to make a point about agriculture. There is no doubt agriculture is a powerful indigenous industry and that it is very important to this country, but if we are not going to seriously consider targets we will do a disservice to it. There are areas where changes can be brought about. Our agricultural emissions are way out of sync with the rest of Europe and there are ways to address...

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: The targets-----

Committee on Environment, Culture and the Gaeltacht: Select Sub-Committee on the Environment, Community and Local Government: Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Committee Stage (9 Jun 2015)

Mick Wallace: The targets are not set out in the Bill.