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Leaders' Questions (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Much of the extra money that has been allotted for this area is being swallowed up by private entities. The people trying to rear families that include children with severe autism will be the first to tell the Taoiseach that many of the private institutions that provide care do not represent value for money, although some of them do. In most cases, these entities are getting €24 per...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Public Services Card Provision (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 70. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if her Department has carried out a formal assessment regarding the risks of introducing a public services card; if her Department has carried out a data privacy impact assessment with regard to the public services card; the impact of the public services card to date with regard to reducing rates of social welfare fraud,...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: insertheading (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 77. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the legal basis for withholding social welfare payments in circumstances in which a person entitled to such payments fails to register for a public services card; her views on whether the overall government policy in relation the public services card and SAFE level two registration limits the statutory discretion of power of...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospitals Policy (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 869. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No. 274 of 17 October 2017, the sale prices, dates of sale and property descriptions for each of the completed transactions relating to the sale of a hospital (details supplied) and associated lands in County Wexford; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47090/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Communications (7 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 1200. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if the verification code sent to mobile phones as part of the MyGovID two-factor authentication scheme is SMS based; if she has satisfied herself that an SMS two-factor authentication scheme is the most secure two factor authentication scheme available to her; if she has given consideration to alternative two-factor...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 1:In page 11, line 7, to delete “5 years” and substitute “3 years”. I just make the point at the outset that it is a bit mad that the Joint Committee on Justice and Equality is sitting to deal with business at the same time as this debate is taking place. While I acknowledge that it is not the fault of the Minister of State, things should be...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill 2017 [Seanad]: Report Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: As Deputy Daly said, our aim here is to place an obligation on health care providers to be open with patients in the aftermath of a serious incident resulting in the patient suffering serious harm. Our preference would have been to place an obligation on health care providers to always be open about any incident, no matter how minor, but in our amendments we have now restricted this to more...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: 44. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of manure systems that are dry systems and liquid systems, respectively; the percentage of agricultural manure handled in anaerobic digesters, anaerobic lagoons and liquid or slurry systems, respectively; the nitrous oxide emissions from manure management in the past ten years for which there are figures available;...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister has repeatedly told me that the agriculture sector will move towards an approach to carbon neutrality which does not compromise capacity for sustainable food production. We are still waiting for a definition of carbon neutrality, yet emissions from the agriculture sector are rising year on year, in accordance with the policy set out in the Food Wise 2025 plan. This question...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: Our information contradicts the Minister's information. We have seen that methane produced per head of cattle shows that global livestock emissions in 2011 were 11% higher than estimates based on data from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Therefore, the figures the Department has been working with need to be revised. At the very least, more robust containment and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I am very interested in agriculture. It is the best industry in the country. I want those involved to be more focused on the issues and challenges of climate change.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I do not make cheap pot shots. I will not get any headlines for this - the Minister need not worry about that – and I am not even looking for them. The Minister did not answer my question on anaerobic digestion plants. Is it possible that there are more in the Six Counties than in the Twenty-six Counties? Why is that the case? Why are we not doing more in that area? Since...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: That is not true. That is not what I said.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I did not say that.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister is misrepresenting my position.

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Greenhouse Gas Emissions (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I was referring to all dairy and beef production, not only ours.

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister would be disappointed if I was not giving out. Surveys consistently show that health care professionals support open disclosure after a safety incident. A survey of US and Canadian physicians revealed that disclosure attitudes were similar in both countries, with 98% agreeing that serious adverse events should be disclosed and 78% supporting the disclosure of minor adverse...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Minister took issue with the fact that our definitions of the different kinds of harm have not been exhaustively tested and that his preference is for those definitions to be provided for in regulations. We say that the definitions brought forward here are reasonably broad and detailed, but not exhaustive. However, it is open to the Minister, should he wish to provide more exhaustive...

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: We changed it so it would be in line with the English model.

Civil Liability (Amendment) Bill [Seanad] 2017: Report Stage (Resumed) and Final Stage (8 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I move amendment No. 7:In page 20, between lines 11 and 12, to insert the following:" "less serious harm" means harm which does not meet the criteria for moderate harm, major harm or prolonged psychological harm;".