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Other Questions: Data Retention (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I look forward to it too.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I welcome the Minister of State to the House. This is my seventh or eighth time addressing the House in the five weeks since we returned after the summer break and I have yet to see the so-called Minister for Housing, Planning and Local Government, Deputy Eoghan Murphy.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I wish no disrespect to the Minister of State who is present. I have had a few conversations with him about housing and he has earned my respect. This is a very problematic area. The problems are not easily fixed but sadly they have got worse in the six and a half years since I have been here. I do not agree with the Government's approach. My topic is the need to ring-fence all State...

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister of State says that we are on the same wavelength but that is not true. Myself and Deputy Bernard J. Durkan, who is also in the Chamber, were on the Committee on Housing and Homelessness last summer. The Government has ignored most of its recommendations.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am sorry but the Government has. This week the Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice - I am talking about people like Fr. Peter McVerry, Ms Margaret Burns, Dr. P.J. Drudy who know a lot about housing -----

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: -----said that we need to reverse the policy pursued by successive Governments of relying to an ever increasing extent on rent supplementation of different kinds as a way of meeting long-term social housing need. We are discussing 10,000 units but the Government still does not want to go to a place where it will get the local authority to build-----

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Hold on, I did not interrupt. In Wexford this year, three local authority houses will be built. That is three, with a waiting list of 3,700. The Minister of State needs to give us a break. It is nonsense. The Government is still totally dependent on the private market to deliver. The Minister of State says that no one gets to build on State land without providing affordable housing....

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Hold on a minute. It sold 3,800 sites in Cherrywood for €27,000 each to Hines, a vulture fund, which is now selling them for more than €100,000 each. Explain how this makes sense to the Irish people, NAMA selling 3,800 sites in Cherrywood for €27,000 each and now Hines is selling them for more than €100,000 each. Explain the logic of that to me, please.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: It is State land, please. It belongs to the State.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: I want a long-term project or a long-term vision.

Topical Issues: Social and Affordable Housing Provision (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: Fine Gael and the Labour Party did away with the social housing scheme.

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Employment Rights (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 20. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the timeframe to allow adults in direct provision the ability to work; when he expects legislation to be presented before the Houses of the Oireachtas; if his Department has engaged civil society groups working in the area of direct provision with regard to the drafting of such legislation; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Refugee Data (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 25. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the number of refugees who have been accepted here since the Irish refugee protection programme was announced in September 2015; if he is satisfied with the rate of acceptance with regard to refugee allocation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44274/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 28. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to direct all State agencies under his remit, in addition to issuing guidelines to all other State agencies not under his specific remit, to discontinue accessing the data of Irish citizens pending the final resolution of issues pertaining to the Communications (Retention of Data) Act 2011 and-or amending legislation...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Data Protection (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 47. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his plans to amend both the Criminal Justice (Surveillance) Act 2009 and the Interception of Postal Packets and Telecommunications Messages (Regulation) Act 1993 to comply with European union law with regard to data protection, further to Mr. Justice John L. Murray’s review of the law on retention of and access to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health and Social Care Professionals Regulation (19 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 145. To ask the Minister for Health if his designation of two distinct professions, that of counsellor and psychotherapist, in his proposals to regulate counsellors and psychotherapists under the Health and Social Care Act 2005 will introduce minimum standards of education and training; if the regulations will designate psychotherapy as a higher standard than counselling; and if the...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Data (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 20. To ask the Minister for Finance the number of current and former NAMA staff who listed previous employment in an investment fund or property company either foreign or Irish in their statement of interests, assets and liabilities to the chief executive officer of NAMA when joining the agency; the name of each investment fund or property company in question; and if he will make a statement...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: NAMA Staff Data (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 21. To ask the Minister for Finance if he is satisfied that the NAMA system of evaluating possible conflicts of interest of NAMA officials under section 42 of the National Asset Management Agency Act 2009 is robust in assessing whether a person may hold a conflict of interest regarding their previous employment; if a register of conflicts of interest is held by NAMA; the system in place if a...

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Help-To-Buy Scheme Data (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 76. To ask the Minister for Finance his views on whether the help-to-buy scheme is contributing to rising house prices (details supplied). [33438/17]

Written Answers — Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment: Renewable Heat Incentive (24 Oct 2017)

Mick Wallace: 309. To ask the Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment his plans for the renewable heat incentive; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44829/17]