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- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I realise these are serious players. I was recently summoned to a meeting by a public figure and a message was passed on to me from a leading member of Cerberus Ireland that I was going to get sorted. Why would they have to say that if I am telling the truth? Can the Taoiseach understand that?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: Is the Taoiseach going to give serious consideration to the questions that are swirling around in respect of NAMA? As I said before, the workings of NAMA have left too much to be desired and there is a lot which is rotten about it. Is it going to be the Taoiseach's legacy that he ignored all of this? Is it going to be part of his history that he chose to ignore what is going on in NAMA?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: Why does the Taoiseach not find out?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: Is the Taoiseach going to stop Project Arrow?
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach cannot be serious.
- Leaders' Questions (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I gave the Taoiseach the questions.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 18:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“(d) the principle of climate justice.”. The principle of climate justice is based on the idea that there is an ecological debt owed by the north to the south. We in the highly industrialised north are most responsible for the build-up of atmospheric carbon. We pulled ourselves out of poverty by...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: No.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 19:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following:“(d) the risk to public health and associated costs to the Health Service Executive posed by climate change.”. I will speak to amendments Nos. 20 and 21 as well. I find it strange that they were not grouped, as I find them to be connected.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: Fine. As I mentioned before, the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform estimates that the cost to the Exchequer to purchase compliance will be billions of euro by 2030, in a business as usual scenario. The point of these amendments is to put into law a system of accounting that will take into account the human and financial cost of action versus inaction on climate change. This was...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister of State for her words but we must agree to differ. I will be pressing the amendment.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 20:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(d) a projection of the long term savings and costs to the exchequer posed by climate change.”.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 21:In page 6, between lines 6 and 7, to insert the following: “(d) a projection of the long term savings and costs to the exchequer as a result of climate change mitigation.”.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: Given that the Minister of State has accused me of being impractical, I insist that my proposal is more practical than the Government's. I have already spoken on the amendment.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: I would have nothing to do with her.
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: We also believe the process should be speeded up in order to provide for the adoption of the first national mitigation plan. The plan should be adopted within six months of the passing of the Act and not 24 or 18, as currently proposed. We need to do a bit more. I find it hard to credit because, at this rate, 2020 will be on top of us and we will not have done anything. We will be...
- Climate Action and Low Carbon Development Bill 2015: Report Stage (Resumed) (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: Some things are difficult to do because of time limits and restrictions of one kind or another and other things become less challenging. This place has stayed open all night to pass legislation in emergency situations. Many people who are very concerned about climate change would say this is an emergency situation. Not everybody is clued in about the issue or on the same wavelength but the...
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: 180. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to extend the time limits on the length of community employment schemes for those persons over 55 years of age so that they may continue working until retirement age; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [32947/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Tax and Social Welfare Codes (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: 182. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Social Protection her plans to raise the levels of employers' Pay Related Social Insurance; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [33008/15]
- Written Answers — Department of Finance: Departmental Expenditure (29 Sep 2015)
Mick Wallace: 246. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to use the €2 billion of bailout funds that the Government expects to receive back from Allied Irish Banks and Permanent TSB, details of which he mentioned in the 2015 spring statement, for investment in public services rather than for debt reduction; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [33108/15]