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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have heard all this before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I know the Commissioner can. I know that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will finish up now.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I will. In light of what she just stated, will the Commissioner explain to me why the vast majority of people think she is no longer the right person for the job? Will she explain why, from the feedback we are receiving, the vast majority of the people in her force no longer feel she is the right person for the job? Lastly, she might address one other small issue. Press releases on breath...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: I might as well say a few words.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: Mick Clifford reported in the Irish Examiner that the Policing Authority had been contacted by a recently retired Garda sergeant who claims that there is evidence that the volume of breath test checkpoints was inflated in official figures. This sergeant prepared a report for his district officer before retiring last year in which he pointed out that the official figures for checkpoints...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: Do the witnesses have any comment on the first question about-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Controversies Concerning An Garda Síochána (30 Mar 2017)

Mick Wallace: The article highlighted that a former sergeant compiled a report last year before his retirement. In the report, he pointed out that the official figures for checkpoints completed could be up to twice the number actually carried out. He said that his concerns were dismissed and he was criticised for making the report.

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: What kind of a society will we have when the Government of the day allows NAMA to sell housing to vulture funds for approximately half of their cost to build and there are more than 7,500 people homeless? Is there any chance that NAMA would play a stronger role? In any development that it is involved in, it is supposed to be delivering 10% social housing. Given that this is not enough,...

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: Section 2(b)(viii) of the NAMA Act provides that NAMA should "contribute to the social and economic development of the State". At the housing committee, Frank Daly of NAMA stated that "the biggest social dividend we can deliver indirectly is to pay this back as quickly as we can". He was speaking of the debt, much as the Minister was now. If NAMA returned what it called a profit of...

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: With the NAMA price, a huge profit is built in.

Other Questions: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not think many people in the country would agree with the Minister. Speaking of a social dividend, when Dublin GAA failed to get the Spawell complex from NAMA, the CEO, John Costello, stated, "When the legislation went through the Dáil at committee stage the community development provision was added but I can't find any example of this being taken into account." We understand the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 66. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the NAMA policy of deleting e-mails of former staff who are not deemed business-critical will impact on the ability of any future commission of investigation into NAMA to fully examine all evidence available; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16450/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 85. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the NAMA policy of deleting e-mails of former staff who are not deemed business-critical is in line with the governance standards of State bodies; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16449/17]

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Training Support Grant (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 356. To ask the Minister for Social Protection if one-day fork truck operator renewal or refresher courses are available in County Wexford to experienced fork truck drivers that are currently unemployed or in receipt of social welfare payments via his Department; if one day fork truck operator renewal or refresher courses were previously available via his Department; if so, the reason the...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: Training Support Grant (4 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 357. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the cost to his Department per person undertaking available fork truck operator training courses for the unemployed or those in receipt of social welfare payments in County Wexford from 2013 to 2016. [16286/17]

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his plans to expand the Wexford branch of the Institute of Technology Carlow or to establish a new institute of technology in County Wexford, in order to deliver greater educational and training opportunities to students in the county; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16541/17]

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: Wexford has one of the highest rates of people with no primary education, at 18.5%, and there is a secondary school accommodation crisis even though we are building two schools at the moment. Some 21% of the population of Wexford have completed third level education, the joint second lowest rate in the country, lower than the average for the south east of 23% and far lower than the State...

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: There is confusion as between the south east and Wexford because they are two different areas. The south east is probably one of the more deprived regions in the country but Wexford is the most deprived county in the south east. According to the Department's projection, there will be an increase of some 57,000 students seeking full-time education soon, which does not take into account...

Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am aware of the thinking of the day. The national strategy for higher education report of 2011 stated that any such move would reduce the diversity in the overall system and have a negative impact on its ability to respond to the country's innovation needs and development opportunities. I wonder if this thinking is driven by university league tables. The thinking the Minister is offering...