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Written Answers — Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Unemployment Levels (23 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 40. To ask the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation her views on the discrepancy between County Wexford's unemployment rate of 18.5% and the rate for the south-east region as a whole, which has fallen to 9.4%; the measures she is taking to bridge this gap and bring more job opportunities to County Wexford specifically; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [14428/17]

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: One more.

Leaders' Questions (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Taoiseach is not wrong there.

An Garda Síochána: Statements (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Tánaiste is talking about introducing the most significant reforms in policing since the foundation of the State. This is a joke. The Tánaiste talks about the Police Authority being a robust body. It is toothless. We told the Tánaiste this when she brought the legislation forward. She introduced changes in respect of GSOC that have left it still unfit for purpose and...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 41. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her views on the fact that, at any one time, approximately 50% of children in the youth justice system are on remand; her further views on the concerns of youth justice advocacy groups (details supplied) that the practice of detention on remand for children is being over-used here as a means to access mental health services which should...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Juvenile Offenders (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 60. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the reason there are still seven minors currently serving sentences in Wheatfield Prison in view of the Government's commitment to ending the practice of detaining children in adult prisons; when these children will be transferred to the Oberstown campus; her plans to expand her Department's role in youth justice issues by taking...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 533. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the detail of the five most destructive factors limiting the recovery of salmon stocks in the River Slaney; his plans to address these issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15288/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 534. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the analysis which has been undertaken by the standing scientific committee on salmon on water abstraction from the River Slaney for domestic, agricultural and industrial use; the effect this is having on salmon stocks in the River Slaney; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15289/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 535. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will reopen the salmon hardship scheme for the remaining 35 salmon net licence holders on the River Slaney in view of the fact that draft net licences on the river have been suspended for ten years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15290/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Fishing Industry (28 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 536. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources if he will consider directing Inland Fisheries Ireland to carry out a full salmonid habitat survey of the River Slaney to develop a habitat map for the catchment. [15291/17]

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: While the Government says it still has support for the Garda Commissioner, mayhem prevails in An Garda Síochána. The Commissioner became caretaker Commissioner in March 2014. The Minister, Deputy Frances Fitzgerald, became Minister for Justice and Equality on 8 May 2014. It just so happened that, on that very same day, Garda Nick Keogh made allegations and started off an...

Leaders' Questions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not know whether the Minister is innocently supporting her in this case; I do not know how much he knows. The Minister for Justice and Equality knows plenty about what I have just said. Does the Minister think it is appropriate for former Commissioner Callinan to have been in Phoenix Park headquarters on several days last week? Does he think it is appropriate that the former...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 5. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the problems in the present transfer system between the Naval Service and the Army and the impact that this is having on morale and on the retention of Defence Forces personnel; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15694/17]

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This question relates to a young lad from Kilkenny who happens to play for Wexford Youths. I was contacted by a member of his family. Deputy Aylward and I have mentioned this to the Minister of State a few times outside the Chamber. I realise there is a shortage of personnel in the navy and that it is as eager as hell to hold on to them, but if it really wants to keep them, it will have to...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This lad has applied three times and is getting frustrated. He is not in a great place. He was reared by his grandparents. His grandfather who served for 23 years as a company quartermaster sergeant died two years ago and, sadly, the service pension died with him. The lad has been looking after his grandmother since then. It is not financially viable for him to go from Kilkenny to Cork...

Ceisteanna - Questions - Priority Questions: Defence Forces Personnel (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: If there is no time limit there should be one. It is ridiculous not to have a measure on these matters. The individual in question wants to go to Kilkenny and the battalion commander in Kilkenny says there is a place there for him. This guy is a qualified communications operator. Money has been invested in him by the State and he is an asset to the Defence Forces. He will have no choice...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: 16. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence his views on whether the current UNDOF mission, in the context of the deployment of Irish troops to the Golan Heights, has now moved away from the original task of the 1974 mandate. [15482/17]

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has the question. He could do with the extra half a minute.

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This is a situation where we are giving legitimacy to an illegal occupation. The Israeli Prime Minister, Mr. Netanyahu, said recently that the Golan Heights will remain in the hands of Israel forever. The problems are increasing in the region. There is increased conflict and increasing illegal activities by the Israelis in the Golan Heights. Recently, in the town of Majdal Shams, the...

Other Questions: Overseas Missions (29 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: This month alone, the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia published a report which concluded that Israel is guilty of the international crime of apartheid against the Palestinians. Many of the report's findings could apply equally to Israel's policy in the Golan and be consistent with apartheid. At present, 23,000 Israeli settlers control 95% of the land of the...