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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I want to pick up on a few points Ms Feehily made. Ms Feehily said that we, as policy makers, gave her an authority that did not have enough powers. We would like to clarify that we did not give it to her. We introduced a different one with many more powers and Ms Feehily would be in a much stronger position if they had taken on our proposal. For the record, the Fine Gael-Labour...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent issues relating to An Garda Síochána: Discussion (27 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank Ms Feehily.

Report of Joint Committee on Justice and Equality on Immigration, Asylum and the Refugee Crisis: Motion (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the Minister of State for his contribution. I am very critical of how Ireland has dealt with refugees who are not in this country as well as those who have come to this country. I mean nothing personal as the Minister of State has shown a strong interest in this matter. However, the role of this Government and its predecessor leaves much to be desired. Ireland reached an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Guidelines (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 25. To ask the Minister for Health if the use of the PHQ-9 and GAD7 checklists for assessing mental health in persons are approved for use by the HSE and general practitioners here; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [40773/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Respite Care Services Provision (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 65. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the recently published scorecard on the national carers' strategy which classified respite care as regressive meaning that the situation has worsened since the national carers' strategy was launched, in view of the commitments outlined in the programme for partnership Government to the principle of equality of opportunity...

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme Review (28 Sep 2017)

Mick Wallace: 158. To ask the Minister for Health the financial supports available for those that suffer with haemochromatosis and require regular venesection; his plans to introduce financial supports to help with the significant financial burden regular treatment creates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41043/17]

Animal Welfare: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome Deputy O'Sullivan's Bill. The Deputy is not asking too much. What it amounts to is Deputy O'Sullivan thinks it is wrong that we tolerate cruelty to animals. The truth is that the vast majority of Irish people do not agree with any kind of cruelty to animals but we are probably not doing enough to address it where it does happen. The Animal Health and Welfare Act 2013, which...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Land Issues (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 76. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the pieces of legislation that enforce the protection of soils, in terms of the introduction of dangerous substances on or in the soil, erosion, organic matter decline, compaction, salinisation and landslides; the programmes of measures for risk areas or national remediation strategies that ensure that contaminated sites receive...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Greyhound Industry (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 80. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if he will consider introducing mandatory drug testing for all competing greyhounds (details supplied); if he will introduce heavier penalties for those found doping, particularly in view of the fact that in 2017, six greyhounds were found to have cocaine in their system; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41289/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 515. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of applications made to his Department for exemptions for the transportation of munitions or weapons of war through Shannon Airport to date in 2017 under the Air Navigation (Carriage of Munitions of War, Weapons and Dangerous Goods) Order, SI 224 of 1973; the number of these applications which were granted and denied,...

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Air Navigation Orders (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 516. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the number of US troops that have passed through Shannon Airport to date in 2017; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41325/17]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Local Authority Housing Rents (3 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 617. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government if he will consider disregarding an increase for qualified child payments in calculating local authority and housing association differential rents as permitted under section 31 of the Housing (Miscellaneous Provisions) Act 2009; the estimated full year cost of such a change; if he will examine the methods used by local...

Vacant Housing Refurbishment Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the Bill. While it is not going to fix our housing crisis, it is certainly a start. Rome was not built in a day but it was started. There are some interesting ideas in the Bill. I can understand that people have concerns. Sometimes people believe that if one reduces bureaucracy, one actually threatens regulation but bureaucracy does not equal good regulation. It is not...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Energy Incentives (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 39. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he has read the research carried out by an organisation (details supplied) calling for an incentive scheme for solar photovoltaic (PV) electricity; if his Department will include solar PV in any new renewable electricity support scheme to replace the existing REFIT scheme; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: National Mitigation Plan (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 46. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment if he will strengthen the national mitigation plan by including concrete actions and targets in line with Ireland's international emissions obligations and also end Ireland's reliance on purchasing emissions units further to criticisms (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41705/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medicinal Products Availability (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 132. To ask the Minister for Health if he will make the drug Kuvan, also known as sapropterin, for the treatment of those effected by phenylketonuria here; and when persons may avail of this treatment. [42040/17]

Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Departmental Contracts Data (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 198. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport the contracts awarded to a company (details supplied) by his Department and State agencies under his remit; the fees charged for each contract; the State agency involved in each contract; the nature of each contract in each of the years 2011 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I thank the witnesses for coming in. I would like to start with a question for the Assistant Commissioner Mr. Michael O'Sullivan. My question relates to the breath test report. Will Mr. O'Sullivan explain why some submissions from the AGSI and a rank and file garda were dismissed? In that context, I wish to quote directly from the report, as follows:It was believed that managers used...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: We will have to disagree on that. My next question is for the acting Garda Commissioner. I get the impression that there is a deliberate attempt in the report to remove any possible motive for falsifying breath test figures in the hope that people will then not believe that anyone in An Garda Síochána could have falsified data relating to the number of breath tests carried out or...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Justice, Defence and Equality: Recent Issues Relating to An Garda Síochána: Acting Garda Commissioner Dónall Ó Cualáin (4 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: What does the acting Garda Commissioner think? Does he think that it is credible that this could go on for so long with senior management not being aware that it was happening?