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Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Inland Fisheries Data (2 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 1274. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources the detail of each of the 12 completed environmental prosecution cases taken by Inland Fisheries Ireland in 2016; the geographic location each case related to; the sector or industry each case related to; the number of successful prosecutions; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19710/17]

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 8. To ask the Minister for Health the steps he will take to address chronic underfunding of child and adolescent mental health services; the further steps he will take to tackle CAMHS staff shortages which are affecting the delivery of the service across the country; his views on the fact that County Wexford, with 14 other counties, does not have an on-call mental health service for children;...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I can see Deputy Jack Chambers replacing Deputy Billy Kelleher soon as health spokesperson for Fianna Fáil. Child and adolescent mental health services outside the hours of nine-to-five Monday to Friday are non-existent in many parts of the country. If one has a referral accepted, nobody can lift a finger to help the child, unless the consultant psychologist assesses him or her....

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The truth of the matter is that the service is not good enough in Wexford. I recently asked the HSE what services were available for children and adolescents who presented with suicidal ideation but who were not deemed by CAMHS to have a psychiatric disorder. The reply from the head of mental health services, Ms Liz Kinsella, stated individuals could access a health service on a 24-hour...

Other Questions: Mental Health Services Provision (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The self-harm intervention programme mentioned by the Minister of State is actually based in Waterford. It is one of the places we rang after 5 p.m. At 5.15 p.m. the telephone was not being answered. One of the parents who contacted me recently has a ten-year old boy who has been diagnosed with severe verbal and oral dyspraxia, a sensory process disorder and as suffering from high anxiety....

Inland Fisheries (Amendment) Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The most serious issue facing Inland Fisheries Ireland is not whether it has the explicit power to prosecute offences under the Fisheries Acts - it is the declining fish stocks in our rivers. It is all well and good to amend the legislation to beef up powers to prosecute, but what difference will it make when there are no fish left in our rivers to protect? As Deputy Pringle has pointed...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 94. To ask the Minister for Health if he has satisfied himself that the current levels of respite care and residential care provided by Wexford HSE disability services are adequate; if other services are available to families struggling to cope with insufficient respite and residential care shortages; the steps he will take to provide additional respite care and residential care in the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 138. To ask the Minister for Finance the details of the sales process engaged in by NAMA in respect of Project Shift; the reason the loans were not included in the Project Eagle loan sale; if the process was an open and competitive process; the number of bidders or potential bidders that were involved in different stages in the process; if a restricted number of parties were invited to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Employment Equality (Abolition of Mandatory Retirement Age) Bill 2016: Discussion (3 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Thank you, sir.

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: 7. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the environmental assessments that his Department carried out into the environmental impacts of Food Harvest 2020 and Food Wise 2025 (details supplied); his views on the plans' aims to increase the State's output of beef and milk; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20868/17]

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Very often when the Minister is talking about agriculture, he uses the phrase carbon neutrality and the word "sustainable". According to kildarestreet.com , he has used the word sustainable 328 times in the Dáil in the last year alone, surpassed only by the Minister, Deputy Simon Coveney. The Minister, Deputy Michael Creed, is in third place for the use of the phrase "carbon...

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister said there is a strong commitment in Food Wise 2025 to measure and monitor the sustainability credentials of the sector. He used the words "sustainable" and "carbon neutral", even though he never defined them with regard food production. He regularly uses the words "sustainable growth" but this is not defined either. A chapter of the national mitigation plan, entitled An...

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am looking forward to getting as much time as the Minister got.

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I can hear both the Ceann Comhairle and the Minister, and I am looking forward to getting the same amount of time as the Minister got. Methane from cows and other animals is problematic. I do not want to demolish farming in Ireland. I, as much as anyone else here, have argued that we should be investing in sustainable industry in Ireland more than anything else. I come from a farming...

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I know more about farming than one might think. We have a problem in the area. I disagree with serious expansion, and I do not agree with increasing the dairy herd by 50%, which will lead to an increase in the beef herd. We cannot have milk without calves. Forgetting about the environment for a moment, from an economic point of view we know for a fact that Britain will import more cheap...

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am not arguing about what the Brazilians do.

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: We are increasing meat production----

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: What about cereal?

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: Cereal is not as problematic as animal production.

Other Questions: Environmental Policy (4 May 2017)

Mick Wallace: That is not a bad idea.