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Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Minister's argument is completely irrational. How can the Minister stand up there and make out that the military interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Syria, have been successful?

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: Shannon has been used to facilitate military intervention-----

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: I did not interrupt the Minister.

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: Shannon has been used as a US military air base to facilitate its military intervention in those countries, and it has destroyed them. Over 2 million citizens have been killed, and we are part of it. The Government is content to let this go on. What has this got to do with keeping peace? The Minister states that we are good at peacekeeping. We are not keeping much peace by allowing...

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: They are not sweeping statements. I am simply being accurate.

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: We are facilitating them, but the price is unbelievably disappointing. Will the Minister not admit that what they are doing is destructive and that it has not helped peace? Did he read what the Pope said about it only last week, that the arms industry has just run out of control? The Pope stated what is happening is ludicrous but it is all in the interest of making money. We are...

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: One hundred and forty-five countries last year alone.

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: We never called for them to intervene.

Other Questions: Foreign Policy (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: I never said they were.

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Internal Security Issues (24 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 91. To ask the Minister for Defence given the attacks in Paris in France, if he has had discussions with the Department of Justice and Equality regarding potential threats to Ireland; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41186/15]

Northern Ireland: Statements (25 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: It would appear that the sectarian backdrop to the Northern Ireland Assembly is being used as a cover-up for practices that would not be tolerated in a properly functioning state. The British and Irish Governments seem to be happy to ignore certain behaviour as long as both sides of the sectarian divide are talking to each other and sitting at the same table. The Irish Government does...

Credit Union Sector: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (25 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The Irish people have paid for the recapitalisation of the banks but, sadly, the banks are effectively closed to many of them. It is easy for people with lots of money to get more of it because they are considered a low risk but people who need it most find it very difficult to get it, whether it is for personal reasons or for business. Small and medium-sized businesses struggle to get...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (25 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 22. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the steps he is taking to ensure the continued success of the Irish agri-food sector, given the planned transatlantic trade and investment partnership agreement; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41367/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Exclusive Fisheries Zone (25 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 28. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine his views on concerns regarding the movements of the Annelies Ilena and the Margiris motor fishing vehicle, the largest and second largest fishing vessels in the world, and their location and operations in Irish waters; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41366/15]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Legislative Measures (25 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 115. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine for a timeline for the promised legislation which will allow the Minister of the day to appoint the control committee of Bord na gCon, a measure which has been widely called for, in order to increase transparency and independence in the industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41976/15]

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (26 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: 12. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation if he has read the recently released Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, and if he has any concerns about the reported roll-back on progress on contentious areas such as patent rules and the investor state resolution system, particularly given the ongoing negotiations on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership and the...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (26 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: For almost 30 years now, we have seen countries from the developed world lower tax rates at the top and rip up a lot of regulations - basically, it is state-sanctioned mass corporate welfare. The incomes of the bottom 90% of have stood still while productivity levels have soared, and the top 10% reap an ever-increasing slice of the pie. The Trans-Pacific Partnership, TTP, and the...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (26 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: The problem is that there is a serious lack of transparency and there is a serious concern that the public interest is not to the forefront of the ambitions of the agreements. Only in August last, the European Commissioner for Trade, Dr. Cecilia Malmström, promised another bout of TTIP transparency, stating that even more documents from the negotiations would be made available, but when...

Other Questions: Trade Agreements (26 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: I refute that comment. I even read what the Minister says on this matter. How can he say that I have a closed mind on the issue? The TTP is a forerunner of the TTIP. It is interesting that Mr. Lori Wallach of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch has pointed out some of the roll-backs on the TPP, stating, with regard to access to affordable medicines, that the TPP's rules on patents for...

Leaders' Questions (26 Nov 2015)

Mick Wallace: I have been co-operating with An Garda Síochána on a number of issues relating to NAMA and it has been back to me regarding some of these issues. As the Tánaiste is aware, I have asked many questions in the Chamber about NAMA but I have not got many answers. In fact I have got none. I have put some of the questions and others to NAMA directly and I have got answers from it,...