Results 4,161-4,180 of 7,404 for speaker:Mick Wallace
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: The Minister's party objected to me.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: The Minister's party objected to it.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: When are we getting the investigation?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: They are not investigators.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: They do not have the power to investigate anybody.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: It is unbelievable what is going on.
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: Why does the Government not care about the fact that NAMA is rotten?
- Leaders' Questions (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: The Government does not want to know the truth.
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Housing Data (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: There is nothing wrong with timber-frame accommodation if it is constructed in the right way. In a climate like ours, the inner leaf can be timber frame but the outer one should be solid. Houses have to be built to a certain standard and to ensure that is done, we must have a proper inspection scheme. The Minister should reconsider getting the local authorities involved in inspecting the...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: 8. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the implementation of the Housing (Traveller Accommodation) Act 1998; if he has considered amending the legislation to include sanctions for non-compliance by local authorities with its provisions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35482/16]
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: In 2000, the Traveller accommodation budget was €70 million. In 2008 it was €40 million, and it was subsequently slashed to €4 million. It was increased slightly in the budget but it represents a cut of 90% on the most marginalised group in our society. Furthermore, there was an overall underspend of 36% in the Traveller accommodation budget allocated from 2008 to...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: We know that local authorities probably will not spend all the money this year and next year. Is there any way of sanctioning them because what is happening is a form of racism? Representatives of the Traveller groups came before the justice committee two weeks in a row and the main point is still Traveller ethnicity. They said that a national policy is something that should be a right for...
- Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Traveller Accommodation (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: Wexford has the fifth highest Traveller population in the country. That population increased by 58.9% between 2003 and 2013 but there are no plans for any transit sites to 2018. According to the plan, there are 128 Traveller households on the Wexford housing list but the lack of funding for new standard local authority accommodation will make it very unlikely that these houses will be...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: 35. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce rent certainty measures, along the lines of those in Germany which cap rents for new tenancies at 10% above the existing rental benchmarks, particularly in view of the recent figures from his Department which show that the number of homeless families in Dublin has surpassed 1,000 for the first...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Rent Controls (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: 51. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his plans to introduce measures to link rent during a tenancy to the annual percentage change in the consumer price index; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [35485/16]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Issues (17 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: 24. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on the figures released by the CSO at the end of September 2016, which showed almost one fifth of new housing purchases in Dublin over the past two years were made by investment funds and REITS; his further views on the effects this will have on both the rental market and the property market; and if he...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: 55. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to reform the social protection appeals system, in view of the almost 60% appeal success rate in 2015 which was highlighted as a concern by the UN; if he will publish the results of all appeals made through this office; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [36053/16]
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: The country rapporteur for the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights commented in June 2015 that Ireland continued to take austerity measures and to focus on cutting the budget and that rates of poverty, including food poverty, and youth unemployment had increased. At the same UN committee, concern was expressed at the high number of initial social welfare decisions which were...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: I accept partially the Minister's first point. Unemployment has fallen in many areas, especially in Dublin where the Minister comes from. In places like Wexford and certain black spots, however, we are still in the dark ages and things are very difficult. The processing time for appeals and their high success rate highlights that there is definitely something wrong. The Minister has...
- Other Questions: Social Welfare Appeals (22 Nov 2016)
Mick Wallace: The Minister will be sorry to hear that most of the young people have left the county and gone to a different country. I do not know if the Minister has seen the film "I, Daniel Blake". Has he seen it?