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Other Questions: NAMA Transactions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: Okay, but it will be a long supplementary. I have spoken to Brian Rowntree several times lately. He said to me that he had never heard of Project Shift. He said that he was led to believe by NAMA, via the chairman, Frank Daly, and Ronnie Hanna, that Project Eagle was the first sale of any element of the Northern Ireland portfolio to a third party loan acquisition group. This is a...

Other Questions: NAMA Transactions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: Sorry. We have been in contact with Mr. Justice Cooke about Project Shift among other things. He has asked us to preserve any evidence relating to Project Shift. However, I cannot understand why the Minister might not be interested in getting answers to the questions around NAMA in this area. I welcome the Minister to his new portfolio and I hope he gets on well in it. By the end of...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Loans Sale (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 42. To ask the Minister for Finance the extent to which NAMA considered the tax structures of potential bidders for assets being sold by NAMA; the impact of these to the potential returns to the State; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31469/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Operations (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 45. To ask the Minister for Finance the freedom of information procedures that operate within NAMA; the process followed from receiving a request to publication; if the procedures adhere fully to the Freedom of Information Act 2014; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31471/17]

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Transactions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 57. To ask the Minister for Finance further to Parliamentary Question No. 271 of 2 May 2017, if he has satisfied himself that NAMA achieved maximum return under section 10 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 with regard to the debt refinancing transaction Project Nantes; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31467/17]

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 125. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade the details of Ireland's stated support of calls for an independent international investigation into alleged violations of international humanitarian law in Yemen; if Ireland has taken substantive measures, diplomatic or otherwise, to demonstrate concerns in this area; if Ireland has taken actions at EU or UN level to instigate an...

Written Answers — Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade: Human Rights Investigations (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 126. To ask the Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade if his Department has raised issues with either the United States of America or the United Arab Emirates in view of the recent reports by an organisation (details supplied) into torture prison camps being run by the UAE with US support; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31652/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 220. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017, if he will define the phrase "carbon neutral" in respect of agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31693/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 221. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017, if he will define the phrase "sustainable" in respect of agriculture; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31694/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greenhouse Gas Emissions (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 222. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine further to Parliamentary Question No. 21 of 22 June 2017 (details supplied), the European forms of food production the family farm is ranked against; the position of the family farm in that ranking in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [31695/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 233. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 81 of 27 June 2017, if his Department carried out economic projections on the potential economic benefits of successful offshore exploration in the Atlantic margin weighed against the potential negative economic impacts of the advancement of rapid climate change that would occur as...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Energy and Natural Resources: Offshore Exploration (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: 234. To ask the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources further to Parliamentary Question No. 85 of 27 June 2017, if his Department carried out a separate environmental impact assessment on the burning of fossil fuels that may be found and extracted as a result of the issuing of offshore exploration licenses in the Atlantic margin; if not, the reasoning behind this approach...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the witnesses for coming before us. It is important to acknowledge that the witnesses know more about this issue than we do. I cannot help thinking that the witnesses know more about it than the officials who are drafting this Bill. Have the witnesses had any meetings with those drafting the Bill or have they consulted the witnesses?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: Last year, Digital Rights Ireland commenced legal proceedings against the Irish State, challenging the independence of the commissioner and alleging that the commissioner did not effectively monitor databases containing personal data that had been created by public bodies. Also the fact that the commissioner is integrated into the Department of Justice and Equality and that many of the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: It is funny. I have heard that before.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: A report carried out last year by the International Network of Civil Liberties Organisations, INCLO, called Surveillance and Democracy: Chilling tales from around the World, highlights the dangers of secretive international information-sharing agreements between intelligence agencies along with the problem of domestic surveillance. There are reports of people being put on secret fly lists,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: On that same theme, does the new legislation square with the ongoing health identifiers framework project which aims to have a database in place which will track every Irish citizen through the health service from birth to death? The legislation underpinning the project, Health Identifiers Act 2014, allows for Ministers from various Departments to share data about individuals with the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: Right.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: When I asked the Data Protection Commissioner about the information gathered by phone companies, she told me there is no specific provision under the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 that obliges her office to notify a person about whom a request has been made for access to his or her telecommunications. We have been communicating with the phone company 3. According to a reply we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: General Scheme of the Data Protection Bill 2017: Discussion (Resumed) (5 Jul 2017)

Mick Wallace: There is much food for thought. I agree with the points made by Dr. Shannon. Children live in a different world. I have a few children and I can barely turn on the computer while they can take it apart and put it back together again. Unless we listen to them we will not understand them. People who legislate very often are disconnected from those for whom they are legislating, and that is...