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- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I always do what I am told.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I am not moving it.
- Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Parole Bill 2016: Committee Stage (24 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 89:In page 22, line 5, after "parole" to insert "and their legal representative".
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Yesterday, Kathleen O’Toole confirmed the suspicions of many, namely, that the Commission on the Future of Policing in Ireland is a fig leaf to divert attention away from the crisis in Garda management. She said that the commission's task is not to scrutinise the performance of individuals and that Garda management inherited a poisoned chalice. However, she forgot to tell us that the...
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: It is outrageous that they might use international terrorism to defend the present Garda Commissioner. The house that is An Garda Síochána is falling down around her ears. While scandals, which can only be described as white collar crime, continue to escalate around Templemore, at the other end of the scale the plot thickens around the Garda involvement in the heroin trade in...
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: But it is not.
- Leaders' Questions (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Three years.
- Other Questions: Local Authority Housing Provision (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: If I send the Minister of State the breakdown of Mel Reynolds' analysis, will he reply to it and counteract what Mr. Reynolds says in order to justify his own numbers?
- Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: This morning during Leaders' Questions, the Tánaiste stated that everyone wants to see the homelessness problem solved and every possible initiative is being taken. This statement is not supported by reality. According to Focus Ireland, in March last, 77 families in Dublin experienced homelessness for the first time, while in March 2013 five families became homeless. The 4% cap on...
- Topical Issue Debate: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: There are still no effective rent controls or taxes on landbanking. Airbnb is making the housing crisis worse and operates in a strange place legally. Last year, An Bord Pleanála upheld a Dublin City Council ruling that an apartment owner in Temple Bar needed to apply for planning permission if the owner wanted to continue renting the property out via Airbnb. The Minister, Deputy...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 30. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government if he is satisfied with the accuracy of official figures for housing completion here; the reason for the disparity between his Department's figure of 14,932 completions in 2016 with the number of building energy ratings certificates issued in that year which was in the region of 3,500; and if he will make a...
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the details of his Department's official 2016 housing completion figure of 14,932 under the categories public and private units, approved housing bodies units, local authority refurbished voids and so on; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25021/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Private Rented Accommodation Costs (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 32. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government his views on whether the policies of his Department could be contributing to rises in rents in view of the CSO's finding that there was a 30% increase in rents in Dublin city over the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25024/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Housing Data (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 40. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the reason for the disparity between his Department's official figure of 15,951 housing completions during the past census period with the findings of the CSO that during the same period the housing stock increased by just 8,800; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25022/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government: Homeless Accommodation Provision (25 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 62. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, Community and Local Government the position regarding the plan to move homeless persons from hotels to industrial premises; the reason these buildings are being exempted from planning permission rules; if he has satisfied himself that the decision to exempt them is in compliance with building control legislation; if these buildings will be...
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 1. To ask the Taoiseach when the most recent meeting of the national security committee took place; the current members of the committee; the number of times the committee meets each year; and the role of the committee. [23329/17]
- Ceisteanna - Questions: National Security Committee (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: Accountability and transparency are essential ingredients of a well functioning democracy. National security issues, however, allow governments that are basically democratic to opt out of these responsibilities and justify actions which often constitute gross infringements of human rights under the guise of protecting citizens. Ireland's national security committee, NSC, by its nature,...
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 71. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade further to an agreement between the RAF and the State concerning Irish airspace defence, if the Defences Forces including the Air Corps, are party to this agreement; if specific training has taken place regarding this agreement; if so, the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [25611/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Military Aircraft (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 82. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if the Defences Forces, including the Air Corps are party to an agreement between the RAF and the State concerning airspace defence; if specific training has taken place regarding this agreement; if so, the cost of same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23330/17]
- Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: UN Commission on the Status of Women (30 May 2017)
Mick Wallace: 90. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade his views on trading with a country that has received international criticism over its treatment of women and minorities in view of the findings of the UN Comtrade database, which found that Ireland's exports to Saudi Arabia in 2016 amounted to over €800 million; the details of Ireland's relationship with Saudi Arabia particularly...