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Industrial Relations (Amendment) (No. 3) Bill 2011: Second Stage (Resumed) (18 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: This Bill can be approached from a number of perspectives. The fact that I employ more than 50 people in the catering industry perhaps allows me to speak about it from a particular perspective. The legislation is geared towards giving employers a better deal and reducing protections for workers by creating greater flexibility. At yesterday's meeting, however, the troika said on a couple of...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Question 24: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the position regarding the largest secondary school in the country (details supplied) in County Wexford which cannot retain guidance counselling positions in place of other subjects due to the large number of students it caters for and, as a result, stands to lose three much needed guidance counsellors; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — School Staffing: School Staffing (19 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Question 34: To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to address the problem at a school (details supplied) in County Wexford at which three guidance counsellor positions are about to be lost; his views that this is particularly serious in a school which has had three suicide-related deaths in the past two years alone; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [2902/12]

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Question 48: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform his views on comments made by officials representing the Troika during its meeting with members of the Technical Group on 17 January last that any money raised from the sale of State assets will be used to service the country's debt and not for investment in job creation as he has previously stated; and if he will make a...

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: When colleagues from the Technical Group and I asked representatives of the troika during our recent meeting about the proceeds of sales of State assets, we were told that, as per the bailout programme, the initial plan was that the moneys would go towards repaying the State's debts. However, they further indicated that if there is potential for the creation of "real" jobs - I am not sure...

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: I would like to read into the record a quotation from Dr. Donal Palcic of the Department of Economics, University of Limerick.

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Does the Minister approve of the sale of State assets and does he believe the private sector does things better than the public sector?

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Any independent economist would argue that the measures taken by this Government since coming into office have not resulted in jobs. There has been a decline in job numbers. The measures being taken are geared towards rebalancing the books to suit the fiscal arrangements. It is not honest to say that the Government has worked towards job creation. There is no investment and the banks are...

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: When will the Minister publish the report of the interdepartmental group which identified State assets and commercial State companies that could be sold and when will he publish the valuations of the NewERA group, both of which were considered by the Economic Management Council of which he is a member?

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Some 25,000 jobs were lost.

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: I did not say that.

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Austerity does not create jobs.

Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Will the Minister give a guarantee that under any Government of which he is a part Irish Water will not be sold?

Building Regulations (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: The predicament of the people who lived in the Priory Hall complex was big news a while back and then it was in the news again but, sadly for them, the nightmare has not gone away. I visited the complex last week and from a construction point of view, it is a disaster. There is a good deal of poor workmanship in it, poor building methods were used, the complex is not damp-proof or...

Building Regulations (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: I trust the Minister will actively get involved and sort out the problem when the law allows. He has said the local authority got involved in 2009. It should have been involved a long time before then. These properties should never have been sold, as they were not fit to be sold. The local authority must carry responsibility in that respect, as it should not have passed the building. The...

Building Regulations (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Every apartment complex I ever built was checked by someone from a Department or local authority. I never built one that was not checked.

Written Answers — Sale of State Assets: Sale of State Assets (24 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Question 69: To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he will confirm to Dáil Éireann, in view of comments made by troika officials during a meeting with members of the Technical Group, that money raised through the sale of State assets will be used to invest in job creation and not for the servicing of debt; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3809/12]

Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Question 7: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation the number of the 13,000 plus Industrial Development Agency supported jobs created in 2011 that were based in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4045/12]

Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: Question 18: To ask the Minister for Jobs; Enterprise and Innovation in view of the creation last year of more than 13,000 jobs supported by the Industrial Development Agency and in view of the net gain of 6,114 jobs overall, the number of these jobs that were created in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4044/12]

Job Creation (25 Jan 2012)

Mick Wallace: The situation in the south east is bad, but it is even worse in County Wexford. The creation of 51 jobs out of 14,000 means that, compared with the national average, matters have worsened in the past year. Almost 20,000 people are on the live register in Wexford and it is one of the country's worst unemployment spots. Two factors help people to get out of difficult circumstances, those...