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Select Committee on Justice and Equality: Estimates for Public Services 2017
Vote 20 - An Garda Síochána (Supplementary) (30 Nov 2017)

Mick Wallace: I have a final question for the Minister. Did someone in the Department have to sign off on the extra costs attached to the special legal team of the former Commissioner, Nóirín O’Sullivan, to deal with the Charleton inquiry? We are aware of the fact that the head of Garda human resources, John Barrett, opposed it and said it was not a good idea. Given this decision was...

Order of Business (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Do away with the Business Committee.

Other Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 45. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality the status of the recruitment process for the post of Garda Commissioner; the timeframe to fill the post; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51744/17]

Other Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: It will be three months this weekend since the resignation of Nóirín O'Sullivan as Garda Commissioner. She was on leave before that, since 17 July, which makes it almost five months since she has performed her role. The Policing Authority told us on 11 September that it had commenced consideration of and research into the process to identify and appoint the next Commissioner. The...

Other Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Does the Minister not agree that Robert Olson's report was a blueprint for how we should do policing? Why in God’s name are we paying Kathleen O'Toole €170,000 a year probably to regurgitate the same thing? Can the Minister justify the fact that she is double-jobbing? She will continue to be involved with the Seattle job until January. We do not have to reinvent the wheel....

Other Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I find it mindboggling that the Minister is prepared to kick this down the road for so long. He might have noticed the comments of Denis Bradley the former vice chairman of the Northern Ireland Policing Board who went to the nub of the issue when he stated that the Patten Commission worked because there was clarity as to who was in charge: "The Northern Ireland Policing Board would be the...

Other Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I never accused the Minister of that.

Other Questions: Garda Commissioner Appointment (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Yes.

Situation in Syria: Motion [Private Members] (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The war and sanctions have turned what was once an independent and self-sufficient country into one heavily dependent on international aid. The sanctions have had a disastrous impact even on the functioning of the aid programme itself. A report commissioned by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which analysed the humanitarian impact of the sanctions, describes the US...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Correspondence (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 53. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he has received correspondence from the legal team of a Garda whistleblower in the Athlone district; if his Department has engaged with the legal team; his plans to raise the issues with the acting Garda Commissioner; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51746/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Policing Authority (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 72. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if he is satisfied with the work of the Policing Authority to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51745/17]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Commissions of Investigation (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 90. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality his views on the fact that transcripts delivered to GSOC on its investigation into certain matters arising from the O'Higgins commission were incomplete; if he has sought an update from GSOC regarding this investigation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51748/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parking Charges (5 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 377. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to address the high prices of the official car park for Wexford General Hospital; the number of car parking spaces available at Wexford General Hospital; the charge per hour; the charge per space; the revenue generated by the car park in each of the years 2010 to 2016 and to date in 2017, in tabular form; and if the car park is operated by the HSE...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Technological Universities (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: 41. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills if he has satisfied himself with the progress on the creation of a university for the south east, if he has satisfied himself with the progress of the proposed acquisition of land for a new Institute of Technology Carlow campus in County Wexford, if either will address the third-level educational deficit faced by persons in County Wexford and...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Technological Universities (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The planned amalgamation of Waterford Institute of Technology and Institute of Technology Carlow into a technological university of the south east has been slowly plodding and going nowhere for two or three decades. I am sure the Minister of State might want to tell me about the progression of the Technological Universities Bill but the truth is that even a technological university will do...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Technological Universities (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: I believe this land was with my good friends in NAMA. A price was agreed and a deposit was paid. A deal was done but somewhere along the route the loans got shifted to a vulture fund. NAMA literally sold the land to a vulture fund, despite a deal having been done with the Higher Education Authority, HEA. How can the Government allow this to happen? It is madness. Carlow IT has gone on...

Ceisteanna - Questions (Resumed): Technological Universities (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: This is ten years in the making. Is there a back-up plan? The HSE recently sold a huge tract of land in Enniscorthy at the old St. Senan's Hospital. I believe it is more than 40 acres. They sold it to a private developer for peanuts. Why did the State not look at that? Will the Minister of State find out for me if the HSE deal was done with NAMA or was it done with the vulture fund? Who...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: The Council of the European Union press release on PESCO has a promotional video that opens with the line, "In a troubled world, citizens want the EU to offer them more protection", followed by images of fighter jets, drones, Apache helicopters, armed troops running off military transport helicopters, aircraft carriers and warships, all to the tune of the kind of aspirational and emotive...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: If the Taoiseach is so hawkish and so confident that this is good for us, I do not understand why he is not prepared to allow for a more public debate on it outside the House. Did the Lisbon and Nice treaties teach the State about allowing people to think too much about these issues? For a number of years, we have witnessed the increased militarisation of Europe. The Taoiseach can say that...

Leaders' Questions (Resumed) (6 Dec 2017)

Mick Wallace: Sending them back to Libya is wrong.