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Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: 369. To ask the Minister for Health the number of persons on the waiting list for Speech and Language Ttherapy in primary care by age category, by area, and by time waiting; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7809/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: 371. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children on the urgent waiting list for Speech and Language Therapy, and the length of time they are waiting, in County Wexford, and nationally.; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7811/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: 366. To ask the Minister for Health the number and the cost of new speech and language therapists he will recruit in 2016; and the number who were recruited in 2015, by county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7806/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: 367. To ask the Minister for Health the number of speech and language therapists the Health Service Executive employed on a full-time equivalent basis in County Wexford and nationally in each of the years 2007 to 2016 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7807/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Speech and Language Therapy (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: 370. To ask the Minister for Health the number and cost of employing speech and language therapists to work specifically in special schools, in County Wexford, and nationally; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [7810/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Election of Chairman (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I second Deputy Ó Broin's nomination.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I, too, congratulate the Chairman on his election and ask him not to hold it against me that I did not vote for him. Most of us would agree that matters will get worse before they get better, unless some immediate measures are taken to deal with the current homelessness and housing crisis. We can be certain that the situation will get worse in the short term unless radical measures are...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: We do not have much time. I do not know how many so-called professionals the committee is looking to invite before us but most people can spend an hour saying what can be said in ten minutes. We could waste a lot of time talking and listening but doing very little, unless we confine them to very short presentations.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Deputy O'Dowd should be left in here on his own all day.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Business of Committee (20 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Housing Agency is a key player.

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Obviously Ireland has concerns about whether Britain stays in the EU and they are very much linked to trade. I am not convinced quite so many problems would develop around trade between Ireland and Britain if Britain were to leave the EU. Needs must and there are different ways of doing business. I think the issue would be dealt with in such a way that both countries would continue to do...

EU-UK Relations: Statements (21 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Story of my life.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Applications (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: 373. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the status of a promised new building (details supplied), including if she has announced a preferred tenderer; when construction will begin and if the project will be completed within the timeframe of the five-year school building programme announced in March 2012; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8042/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I have a couple of points to make. I would say that the problems facing various local authorities are very different. In Wexford, for example, where there is a waiting list of 3,800 on the social housing list, they do not have land; whereas in places like Dublin they have land but they just have not got around to building on it. For example, if somebody is from a county like Wexford - it...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I accept that.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am not saying we can get everybody when we want them. The element of finance is relevant to where and how we will get the money. It is crucial to many of the issues we will discuss in here. It should come earlier rather than later. That is all.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: Given that the past five years have been a disaster in how the supply of housing for all sectors has been dealt with, I am inclined to agree with Deputy Coppinger that some fresh thinking is not going to kill us. I would not suggest that anyone should come in to this committee and talk for an hour, but if people with some fresh thinking are allowed in to the committee and are confined to 15...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I agree with bringing in Bob Jordan of Threshold. Another person who needs to be brought in is the acting Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan. Without a shadow of a doubt many of the US investment funds have had a major impact on the private rental sector. The favourable tax arrangements put in place for them in the lifetime of the previous Government have had a major impact in...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: I recommend that the committee bring in Jim Keogan from the planning department of Dublin City Council. He has much to offer in this area.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Interim Report of Committee (26 Apr 2016)

Mick Wallace: The issue of private housing has been raised. I do not take the position of the CIF but I believe there are major problems with the supply of private housing in Ireland. Affordability is the primary issue. Two thirds of the people are probably always going to use private housing. It is a huge issue and very problematic. It has not been addressed for years by any Government. There is a...