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Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: It was in Bree.

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: The International Organisation for Migration claims that it has rescued thousands of refugees this year. The Minister has claimed this as well. It is not true. Rescue ends with people being in a safe place. This process is pulling people back to a place of violence and human rights violations from which they have fled. It is horrendous that Ireland would play a part in this. Recently,...

Other Questions: Defence Forces Operations (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: No one wants to see these people drown, but we do not want them to return to Libya either to be punished or killed. Operation Sophia does involve returning these people to Libya. The EU is boasting about the fact that the numbers crossing the Mediterranean are shrinking. The Minister said that Operation Sophia can bring these migrants to Italy. That is true, but unfortunately huge numbers...

Other Questions: Military Neutrality (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: We allow a civilian airport on this island to be used as a US military base, from where it goes on to cause destruction in other regions. There is a humanitarian disaster taking place in Yemen at present, and arms going through Shannon are being used there. They are going to the Saudis, backed by the US and Britain. We cannot call ourselves neutral while we allow this to happen. I do not...

Written Answers — Department of Defence: Defence Forces Strength (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 53. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence if his attention has been drawn to the number of personnel exiting the Defence Forces excluding mandatory retirements since 2015; if he is satisfied that the Defence Forces can still attract recruits at the number required; the steps he is taking to ensure that a career within the Defence Forces offers financial stability and job security; and...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: National Educational Psychological Service Data (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 98. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the average wait times for National Educational Psychological Service assessments in each county in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the number of NEPS psychologists employed in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017 by county, in tabular form. [44103/17]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Student Grants Data (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 108. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of overpayments of SUSI grants for students nationally in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017 with accrued values (details supplied); the number of overpayments of SUSI grants for students attending the IT Carlow Wexford campus in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017 with the same accrued values; and the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: School Transport Data (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 110. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the number of eligible students under the school transport scheme who applied for the 2017-18 scheme who did not receive a seat in each county, in tabular form; if a feedback system exists between Bus Éireann and his Department to monitor the excess number of eligible students who apply for the scheme and do not receive a seat; and if he...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Likewise. We all want a better system for the appointment of judges and one that is clean, transparent and accountable. Sometimes people confuse bureaucracy with good regulation. One does not need more bureaucracy to have good regulation and practice. Members confuse the two dimensions a lot of the time in the Dáil. In the normal run of things if a Deputy made the same proposal it...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: That makes sense.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am perfectly happy to listen to the Minister first. If he would rather that I spoke first then I will.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am inclined to agree with the Minister's last point. For example, at the moment if we avail of a former judge to chair a commission - and we are running out of them for commissions of investigation currently - we still regard them as being legal. If they are a former judge, we assume and we see them more on the legal side than on the lay side. I would agree with the Minister's point in...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Deputy O'Callaghan should continue.

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: My proposed amendments are amendments Nos. 84 and 85 which are in this grouping of amendments. Their purpose is to remove the notion that the chair has to be a lay person. We are proposing a situation in which the chair will be picked by the committee. There is too much focus in the Bill on always having a lay majority. For example, the proposed amendments to sections 18(5), 19(2) and...

Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Judicial Appointments Commission Bill 2017: Committee Stage (18 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: There are many matters that relate to amendments Nos. 84 and 85 in my name. For example, we have tried to create a bit of balance by saying it should not be obligatory to have a lay chair. We have proposed having six legal members, six lay members and the Chief Commissioner of the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission, who is a hybrid of the two. He or she is selected by the Public...

Other Questions: Prison Service Strategies (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: We are not supposed to be nice fellows.

Other Questions: Departmental Strategy Statements (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Good one.

Other Questions: Data Retention (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 13. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the steps he has taken since receiving Mr. Justice John L. Murray’s review of the law on retention of and access to communications data report; if he has engaged with other Departments with regard to the findings of this review; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44276/17]

Other Questions: Data Retention (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I appreciate the Department of Justice and Equality has drafted new proposed legislation to address the damning indictment of the State's surveillance of its citizens in the report from Mr. Justice Murray. What other steps has the Minister taken or intends to take with regard to the findings of the review? Will the Minister consider directing State agencies to discontinue accessing the data...

Other Questions: Data Retention (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Mr. Justice Murray specifically stated that the State should consider suspending the accessing of the data of Irish citizens under the Communications (Retention of Data) Act. Digital Rights Ireland has also repeatedly warned about the possibility of convictions being overturned in legal action being taken against the State. In April 2014 the European Court of Justice utterly rejected the...