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Other Questions: Institutes of Technology (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: All the work is in Dublin. There is no work in rural areas.

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Third Level Participation (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 72. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills his views on County Wexford's low third level educational attainment rates, which according to the Wexford Local Economic and Community Plan 2016-2021, are the third lowest in the country; the actions he is taking to address this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16542/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Staff Recruitment (5 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 283. To ask the Minister for Health the name of the newly appointed consultant medical oncologist with a special interest in sarcoma in St. Vincent's University Hospital and the start date for taking up the position; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17038/17]

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move: "That the Bill be now read a Second Time." I am well aware that the Bill is far from perfect. There are some clerical errors in it and Deputies can see that we did not include amendments that have been made since the 1957 Act which was a mistake on our part. It was mentioned to me that I might have a conflict of interest with the Bill, but given that there are 158 Deputies in the...

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: It is luck of the draw.

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 19 December.

Statute of Limitations (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister of State, and Deputies Jonathan O'Brien, O'Callaghan and Clare Daly for their contributions. The Law Reform Commission thought we should address this problem six years ago. I would argue that we need it now more than ever. Ireland is a different place now than it was then. We borrowed over €60 billion to bail out the banks. We made the ordinary people foot the...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Planning Issues (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 38. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to recent reports that Ireland's largest build-to-let apartment development, which is to be built at the former Dún Laoghaire golf course, is to be put up for sale on the international market; the number of these apartments that are to be designated for social or affordable...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Policy (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 48. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the NERI report Ireland's Housing Emergency: Time for A Game Changer, asking the Government to set up a semi-State company to become the main supplier of rental housing, and which would use a cost rental system similar to the one in place in Austria; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Social and Affordable Housing (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 58. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if an allocation of €500 million will be made to local authorities for the direct building of social housing, in view of the reports that the majority of social housing units are currently being built by approved housing bodies that are more limited than local authorities in their capacity to deliver new...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: House Prices (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 64. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if his attention has been drawn to the research carried out by a person (details supplied) based on CSO data for housing completions and house prices between 1975 and 2015, which has found that, contrary to a central principle of the Rebuilding Ireland strategy, the provision of private sector homes here has not led...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: House Prices (6 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 70. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government in view of the fact that research has shown that increasing the supply of private housing does not always bring the price of housing under control, if he will consider introducing measures that would prevent further boom and bust in house prices here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17096/17]

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Social Protection the measures he is taking to address the unemployment rate in County Wexford (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17847/17]

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: As we are told by members of the Government every second day, the national unemployment rate has dropped to 6.4%. The Government is slightly more sheepish about revealing the number of people on the live register in Wexford. Some 18% of the workforce in Wexford is on the live register, and that does not take into account the number of people in job activation programmes. I have raised...

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: Listening to the Minister's reply, one would think that things are wonderful in Wexford. If things are improving so much, how can the live register still be at over 18%? Wexford is ranked the third most deprived county in the country. Why does Wexford have one of the worst illiteracy rates in the country? Why does it have one of the highest teenage pregnancy rates in the country? Why...

Other Questions: Unemployment Levels (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: It would be wonderful if there was investment put into Rosslare Port because there is an opportunity there to make things much better. The Minister mentioned road improvements. That is not the biggest demand in Wexford at the moment. A bypass is being built around New Ross. A bridge to deal with the traffic issue could have been built for a fraction of the price that the bypass will...

Reform of An Garda Síochána: Motion [Private Members] (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Garda Commissioner remains exclusively accountable to the Minister for Justice and Equality rather than to the Policing Authority. The Minister alone still has the power to issue directives to the Garda Commissioner. We cited ten reasons, in 2015 alone, as to why the Policing Authority was not fit for purpose but, sadly, Fine Gael, the Labour Party and Fianna Fáil said otherwise. ...

Written Answers — Department of Social Protection: One-Parent Family Payment Eligibility (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 69. To ask the Minister for Social Protection his plans to raise the cut off age of the one-parent family payment to 14 years of age or to introduce additional measures to assist lone parents with children between the ages of 7 and 14, in view of the fact that recent SILC data shows that almost 60% of persons living in one parent households experience deprivation; and if he will make a...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 249. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person that commenced employment as a Youthreach resource person in 2010 while covering sick leave in late 2010 and early 2011 can have this employment counted as prior service for eligibility for pre-2011 pay scales; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17957/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Departmental Expenditure (11 Apr 2017)

Mick Wallace: 254. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if a person that commences employment as a Youthreach resource person while covering sick leave is eligible for payment of a degree or diploma allowance; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18056/17]