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Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish League of Credit Unions (5 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: On the issue of PPPs, the credit union interest rate of 3.5% would be attractive by comparison with 15%, which is often the rate of the PPPs. This morning, the Minister for Finance, Deputy Michael Noonan, stated that we cannot have credit unions engaging in risky lending. Whether he believes that the banks can and does not like the credit unions doing it, I wonder what the ILCU think of...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I thank Mr. Honohan for attending. His material is very good and definitely stimulates thought. His point about outright purchase certainly makes sense. We all know that if we start building, we will continue to have problems for at least three years anyway. The outright purchase would deal with it more quickly. Does Mr. Honohan think the argument for the public good in the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Master of the High Court (10 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I ask Mr. Honohan respond to my last question on the Commercial Court. Many people who have gone through the process do not feel that they have been treated fairly. Does Mr. Honohan think the Commercial Court has acted independently at all times in making its decisions?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Professor P. J. Drudy, Trinity College Dublin (10 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I thank Professor Drudy for his contribution. He is a breath of fresh air. He should be made housing Minister. It would be interesting to see how that would work. We are all in agreement that the manner in which we supply housing is dysfunctional and has failed. There are a few huge elephants in the room, one of which is land-banking and which successive Governments have refused to tax....

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Professor P. J. Drudy, Trinity College Dublin (10 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Professor Drudy has been invited.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Given the forum we are in, I am far more interested in what NAMA is going to do in the future than in what it did in the past. Mr. McDonagh said NAMA paid approximately €32 billion for assets that were worth approximately €5 billion less. I do not dispute the claim that they were worth no more than €25 billion but when NAMA was set up, the idea was not to flood the...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: National Asset Management Agency (12 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Mr. Daly insists on sticking to his point that the biggest social dividend is to pay back the debt as soon as possible. Would he agree that would be regarded as a neoliberal position and that those who would think that the best interests of the people should be served before those of business might have a different view?

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Dublin Homeless Network, Limerick and Clare Homeless Alliance, Cork Social Housing Forum (12 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Chairman, I suggest that we invite Deputy Durkan to make a submission to the committee some day.

Adjournment Debate: Garda Reports (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: If Maurice McCabe had not made a recording, the judge would have been compelled to believe the two officers and Maurice McCabe would have been destroyed. This development was not even mentioned in the O'Higgins report. Surely, that undermines the report's integrity. We still do not know whether Ms Nóirín O'Sullivan's legal team, under her direction, handed documents to the...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 31. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality if she is satisfied with the performance of the Garda Síochána Ombudsman Commission in its role as a confidential recipient; if she will improve this arrangement; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [10131/16]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Resettlement Programme (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 41. To ask the Minister for Justice and Equality further to her announcement in September 2015, to comment on Ireland's progress of resettling refugees; her engagement with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in relation to this and, in particular, her progress in resettling unaccompanied minor refugees, which she highlighted as a special priority; and if she will make a statement on...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Residential Tenancies Board (17 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: On the point about 80% of landlords owning only one or two properties, I do not expect Ms Carroll to have the figure now but could she tell us how many properties are owned by the top 20 individual owners and whether they are investment funds or individuals? How much property does the top 20% control in the rental sector in Ireland? Ms Carroll referred to the need not to scare people out of...

Leaders' Questions (18 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: The Minister should call the Commissioner to account.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Fiscal Policy (18 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: 22. To ask the Minister for Finance his plans to seek a break from the European Union regarding the fiscal rules in order to secure finance to address the emergency in housing and homelessness; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10514/16]

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: On the same point, I accept that it would be very difficult to achieve that but it is worth trying. The Department of Justice and Equality is not really the right place for it. I have serious reservations about how the Minister for justice is handling anything to do with refugees. This area is definitely something we should support moving into the new Department.

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Irish Refugee Council (19 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I am probably cheating a bit by going off the subject, but given that the witnesses have a very good understanding of the issues, do they think the Government could look at the idea of screening unaccompanied minors in camps like Calais and Dunkirk? With EU policy and the Greece-Turkey deal, a situation in which only Syrians are really being entertained, those being pushed back from Greece...

Committee on Housing and Homelessness: Tiglin Challenge (19 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I was not going to ask a question. I wanted to compliment the witnesses. It was a very interesting presentation. What they seem to have achieved is great.

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: Tell that to RTE.

Leaders' Questions (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: I thought she was answerable to the Dáil.

Adjournment Debate: Refugee Crisis (24 May 2016)

Mick Wallace: More than 8,000 people have been moved from the Idomeni camp, and among them are hundreds of unaccompanied children. If the European Union countries, including Ireland, had fulfilled their obligations in the past year, most of those people would not be going into another camp but would be facing a better future. Sadly, the programme of the EU is about detention and deportation, when it...